Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2020.3

MAXtoA plugin updated to support Arnold 5.4, but otherwise, it's mainly bugfixes this time round.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3

Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019

Foundry closes Athera

All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch.

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1

Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.

Thursday, October 17th, 2019

Check out neat physics-based animation app Cascadeur

Updated: Nekki's unusual animation software gets new rigging tools, updated AI-based AutoPosing system.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 9

3D clothing design tool gets support for GPU simulation, new brush-based subdivision system.

Friday, October 11th, 2019

Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs

Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.

Friday, October 11th, 2019

Apple acquires IKinema

Motion capture technology firm's middleware and IKinema Action plugin for Maya are no longer available for sale on its website.

Thursday, October 10th, 2019

Esri ships CityEngine 2019.1

Edit 3D buildings created in the city-generation tool procedurally in Maya via new integration plugin Serlio: free for non-commercial use.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

Check out neat retopology tool QuadRemesher

Updated: now available for Blender. Exoside's new tool turns messy models into clean all-quad meshes.

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

Andrei Sarmadac and Kun Shi release Rocket 3F 1.8

Streamlined modeling software gets new portable edition that can be run from a flash drive.

Friday, September 20th, 2019

Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.1

Open-source physically based renderer gets Cryptomatte support. neat new sampling control system.

Monday, September 16th, 2019

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21

Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019