e-on software ships Vue R4 and PlantFactory R4

Vue gets automated real-world terrain data import; PlantFactory gets 3ds Max and Maya plugins.

Friday, December 13th, 2019

Autodesk ships Mudbox 2020

Smallest annual update to the sculpting software in recent history adds one new feature - a data link to Flame - and just two bugfixes.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2020

Mocap editing software gets option to declutter animation playback, plus support for unlimited Undos.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0

Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2019.1 VS and RS

UV unwrapping tools for DCC work and product design now run on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.

Friday, December 6th, 2019

The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists

Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.

Friday, November 29th, 2019

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