Nvidia announces Iray VR and Iray VR Lite
Firm unveils two new editions of its GPU-based rendering technology designed for virtual reality work.
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
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Otoy reveals its roadmap to OctaneRender 4.0
Support for CPU rendering, skinned characters and Brigade path tracing - plus OctaneImager, an entire new compositing app.
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
See the world's best CG environment art at Territory
Free exhibition at Hollywood's Gnomon Gallery shows fantastic worlds created by 11 leading VFX and games artists.
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
See screenshots of what may be 3ds Max 2017
Posted on Autodesk's AREA forum, but not confirmed officially yet. Some information about new features too.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
NewTek previews LightWave 2016
Updated: See the new scene editor and a side-by-side performance comparison with LightWave 2015.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
innoBright halves price of Altus 1.3
Updated: Tool for denoising images generated in renderers like Arnold and V-Ray now starts at $20/month.
Monday, March 28th, 2016
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.3
3ds Max physics plugin gets better liquid simulation and particle caching, plus support for Alembic.
Thursday, March 24th, 2016
Nvidia releases HairWorks source, unveils PhysX-GRB
Source code of fur system used on Call of Duty: Ghosts out now. New CGU/GPU rigid body system in beta.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Blender 2.77 ships
Updated: Open-source 3D tool gets support for OpenVDB volumetrics, better sculpting and Boolean tools.
Monday, March 21st, 2016
Amazon releases Lumberyard 1.1
Big update to free AAA game engine adds Substance integration, mobile support - and a proper FBX importer.
Thursday, March 17th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2
3D painting tool gets Iray renderer integrated inside, new Clone and Smudge tools, new Linux edition.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
Side Effects releases Houdini Engine Indie free
Edit Houdini content inside Unity, UE4, Maya, Max or C4D with the indie game dev tool, previously priced at $99/year.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
Autodesk ships Stingray 1.2
Update to game engine adds new animation workflows, multicore compilation, HTC Vive support.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016