Esri ships CityEngine 2016.0

Powerful procedural city modelling software gets new Alembic exporter for use with visual effects pipelines.

Monday, June 27th, 2016

AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max

Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

Go Ghost unveils first 'sub pixel sample compositor'

Evotis will take compositing way beyond deep images, claims intriguing new tool's developer.

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Autodesk ships Stingray 1.3

Game engine gets new fur, cloth and clear coat shaders, plus support for texture streaming and Nvidia's APEX real-time cloth simulation system.

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

Autodesk unveils new M&E Industry Collection

Cheaper than the Entertainment Creation Suites it replaces on 1 August, though it omits Softimage.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2016

Nukeygara updates free public beta of Akeytsu

Updated: Beta 3.0 of next-gen animation system adds new weight painting and editing tools for skinning characters.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2016

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2016’s technical papers

Watch our pick of the show's hottest research - from new ways to 3D print Moomins to Schrödinger's Smoke.

Monday, May 30th, 2016

Watch a free masterclass on 3D environment work

See Alex Alvarez's class on creating photorealistic 3D environments at Gnomon's LA campus on Thursday, or watch free onine.

Monday, May 30th, 2016

Basefount ships Miarmy 4.7

Maya crowd-simulation tool now lets crowd agents float in water, or get up after being turned into ragdolls.

Friday, May 27th, 2016

Fabric Software launches Fabric for Unreal in beta

New tech lets UE4 users import Alembic files, complete with hierarchies, material assignments and deformations.

Friday, May 27th, 2016

Get the new Substance plugin for Houdini

Allegorithmic's free add-on lets users edit textures in Substance format using Houdini's native tools.

Thursday, May 26th, 2016

Side Effects Software ships Houdini 15.5

Update adds new modelling, retopo and UV options, Delta Mush system, better crowd animation, VR camera.

Friday, May 20th, 2016

LuxRender 1.6 ships

Open-source renderer gets new shadowcatcher system, plus variance clamping to reduce artefacts in renders.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016