Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3

Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

SolidAngle releases Arnold for Houdini

New Houdini to Arnold plugin now available to download alongside the Maya and Softimage versions.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 4

3D clothing creation tool used on Tintin and The Hobbit adds FBX import, new Quadrangulate option.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

Corona Renderer dev team post first Cinema 4D build

Free alpha of the promising renderer includes instancing, basic support for native C4D materials and lights.

Monday, September 8th, 2014

Gnomon releases full guide to character animation

Discover Guardians of the Galaxy animator In-Ah Roediger's workflow in Performance & Acting: Creating Believable Characters.

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

Gnomon ships superheroic character design training

Sculpt and render the Silver Surfer with Marvel artist Josh Herman's ZBrush, Maya & KeyShot tutorial.

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular

Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 3.3

Maya crowd simulator adds support for blendshape animaion - as shown in a rather endearing demo video.

Saturday, August 16th, 2014

Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana

New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Side Effects releases Houdini Indie

Updated: new edition gives anyone making under $100K the full feature set of Houdini FX for $199/year.

Friday, August 8th, 2014

Arnold 4.2 and new Houdini and C4D plugins due soon

Performance gains of up to 50% for the core renderer; plugins due out at Siggraph and by the end of this year.

Sunday, August 3rd, 2014

Video: Fabric Software's Splice for 3ds Max

See 600 rigged characters running in the Max viewport in real time with the upcoming Fabric Engine plugin.

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

Download 165 new Xfrog 3D plant models for free

Get 36 plants, trees and shrubs in a range of common formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.

Friday, July 25th, 2014