Render Legion previews Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max

Next version of renderer to add adaptive image sampling, new denoising system. Cinema 4D version due this year.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

Golaem releases Golaem 5.0

New Layout tool lets users edit timing or visual properties of crowd sims without re-running the simulation.

Friday, February 19th, 2016

Gnomon releases detailed Introduction to V-Ray

Get up to speed with the renderer with Psyop CG supervisor Stephen DeLalla's 10-hour training course.

Friday, February 12th, 2016

Luxion ships KeyShot 6.1

Update extends renderer's HDRI design and toon rendering capabilities and adds support for camera motion blur in animations.

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

AAA Studio releases FurryBall RT 1.2

GPU-based renderer's interesting new scene format lets users export Maya Fluids sims to Cinema 4D, or C4D particles to Maya.

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016

Download the first demo of Redshift for 3ds Max

3ds Max users get their first chance to try the increasingly popular GPU based biased production renderer.

Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

Alexandra Institute ships Elementacular 1.3

Create realistic clouds without sims by converting any 3D geometry to a volume. Also works for fireballs.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

Gnomon ships Creating a Sci-Fi Alleyway

Create immersive production-ready scenes with Devon Fay's six-hour guide to CG environment work.

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

Joe Alter releases Shave and a Haircut 9.6

Maya hair plugin gets first big update in several years, improving viewport performance and grooming tools.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 3.0 for 3ds Max

Updated: New extension release gives the multiphysics plugin support for variable viscosity fluids and a new foam solver.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

DGDM ships SLiB | Browser and SLiB | Browser Pro 1.0

Maya plugins for browsing shaders get new search and favourites options. Base edition is still free.

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2016 Extension 2

Video: See the updates to the Max Creation Graph and new real-time decals workflow for the TextPlus tool.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Tech talk: Quixel founder Teddy Bergsman

Quixel's CEO tells us how he ate gruel for months to develop killer texturing tools - only to keep giving them away free.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015