Point Render recreates Dürer and Doré in Houdini

Now shipping: Chimney VFX artist Jan Białek's Houdini plugin renders 3D models in striking classical graphic styles.

Saturday, July 9th, 2016

FurryBall RT 1.3 ships, adds new free 'Credit version'

Updated: Just logging in now gives you up 30 free hours of rendering a month, even for commercial jobs.

Thursday, July 7th, 2016

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Modo

New native Modo version of renderer uses same core tech as Max and Maya versions, but costs $340 less.

Wednesday, July 6th, 2016

Download Grease Pencil V2 for Windows

Grease Pencil turns Blender into a free, bones-based 2D animation toolset. Try the new version here.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Redshift 2.0 ships: new 3ds Max version also available

Hotly tipped biased GPU-based renderer gets new PBR material, support for volumetrics and baking.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Fabric Software releases Kraken 1.2

Open-source rigging system creates character rigs that work across Maya and Softimage. Now with faster biped rig setup.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2016

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