Esri ships CityEngine 2014.0

Powerful procedural city-generation tool gets new plugins integrating it with Maya and Unity.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

Pixar to make RenderMan free for non-commercial use

Unrestricted free version due this summer. Price of commercial version cut to just $495, effective now.

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 1.7 for Softimage

Free update adds support for image sequences and more ICE features, like vertex colours and weight maps.

Friday, May 23rd, 2014

e-on software ships The Plant Factory 2014.5

Free update extends import/export options for vegetation-creation tool, and relaxes its contentious EULA.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

AAA Studio cuts price of FurryBall by a third

Cost of a licence of the GPU-accelerated renderer for Maya and 3ds Max down to €599 ($820).

Monday, May 19th, 2014

Craft Animations releases Craft CameraFx

New MotionBuilder plugin lets users pilot realistic virtual camera moves with a mouse or Xbox controller.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

Autodesk ships FBX Review for Mac and iOS devices

Free asset-review tool comes to Macs and iPads on top of Windows; adds support for geometry caches.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

Sign up for Gnomon Master Classes 2014

Learn from senior artists at Disney, Marvel and Blizzard in next month's series of 14 exclusive interactive online workshops.

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

Gnomon releases Creating Terrains with Satellite Data

New two-tutorial set provides comprehensive guide to creating detailed, art-directable 3D terrain.

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Chris Zurbrigg releases Keyframe MP

Updated: Scrub through animations and reference footage in sync with this neat alternative to QuickTime.

Friday, April 25th, 2014

Side Effects announces Houdini Engine pricing

Engine starts at $495; free plugin enabling users to edit Houdini content inside Maya ships in July.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

Paint your crowd sims with Golaem Crowd 3.2

Maya crowd simulator adds option to control actor density and behaviour simply by painting on the ground.

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

Autodesk releases Toxik and MatchMover for free

Updated: Compositor and camera tracker available via the Exchange Apps store, along with Backburner.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014