Check out the new features in Blender 2.75

Updated, now shipping: Big update adds stereo rendering, proper support for AMD GPUs in Cycles.

Wednesday, July 1st, 2015

The Foundry ships Flix 5.1

Next-gen visual story development tool gets better links to Photoshop et al, new semi-automatic workflow for creating 3D animatics in Maya.

Monday, June 29th, 2015

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

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