Massive Software announces Massive 8.0
Update will let users simulate 20,000 AI-driven crowd characters in real time. New 3ds Max plugin coming too.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
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INTiMATE will let you talk to characters to control them
IKinema's new technology aims to enable devs to build simple text and voice controls into tools like Maya.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Nuke
Edit V-Ray lights, materials and render properties directly inside Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
AAA Studio releases FurryBall RT 1.1
GPU production renderer gets new noise filter to clean up renders, plus support for Maya's XGen and Bifrost.
Thursday, August 6th, 2015
Autodesk launches Stingray game engine
New engine to ship on 19 August from $30/month, with suite of supporting middleware. Free to Maya LT users.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
Peregrine Labs releases Yeti 2.0
Maya fur plugin gets speed boost, better dynamics, new sculpting tools. Price down to CAD $699, too.
Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Gnomon releases complete guide to CityEngine in VFX
Matthias Buehler's seven-hour video explores how to create digital film sets with Esri's powerful procedural city-generation tool.
Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
E-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2015.5
3ds Max, Maya and C4D instancing plugin gets revamped file browser, better compatibility with PlantFactory.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Thinkbox Software releases Deadline 7
Updated: v7's new wizard for setting up cloud-based renderfarms now available for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon EC2.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
Golaem releases VRayGolaem for 3ds Max
Free plugin lets Max users render full-size crowd simulations created using Golaem Crowd for Maya.
Friday, July 10th, 2015
Pixar ships RenderMan 20
Latest update adds Denoise option for raytraced renders, new Visualizer view for debugging complex scenes.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
See Gnomon's Best of Term Winter 2015 award winners
Check out the best recent CG work created by students at the school, from FX to character modelling.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Fabric Software, MPC unveil Fabric for RenderMan
Graphics tools dev framework to get new link to RenderMan. More news on upcoming open-source rigging system Kraken, too.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015