DAZ 3D ships Victoria 7
Popular stock figure gets new facial rig, plus OpenSubdiv and UDIM support to increase compatibility with other 3D apps.
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
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Pixar and DreamWorks announce OpenSubdiv 3.0
Big update to open-source subdivision surfaces libraries boosts CPU performance 10 times.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
AlphaVFX releases BulletFX for 3ds Max
New plugin offers 'highly optimised' GPU-accelerated version of the popular Bullet physics library in Max.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
Maxon unveils Cinema 4D plugin for Houdini Engine
Updated: Free plugin to make Houdini's VFX tools accessible inside C4D now out in public beta.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 9
Big update to UV unwrapping tool adds neat brush-based workflows for optimising UVs; UDIM support and Lua scripting.
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for 3ds Max 3.20
New video: Service pack adds new VR cameras, GPU-based texture baking, option to render fluid sims.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Download the free Digital Emily 2 human head model
Get this free, hi-res scan of a female head in Maya or Alembic format, complete with 8K texture maps.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
Digimania releases RenderDigimania 1.06
Updated: High-speed GPU-based renderer for animated series gets native Maya material export system.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 4
Maya crowd-simulation system gets new options for blendshape animation, auto IK - and support for very big sims indeed.
Monday, May 25th, 2015
The Foundry reveals entire feature set of Modo 901
Videos: see the key features of this major update, including the new Advanced Viewport and FX tools.
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold for Cinema 4D
C4DtoA plugin lets Arnold render "most Cinema 4D features", plus scenes created using TurbulenceFD or X-Particles.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
Gnomon releases Texturing Environments with Mari
DreamWorks veteran Jessica Canter's new 150-minute tutorial provides a broad-based guide to environment work.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015