Alexey Vanzhula makes Flux available for free

Get the neat real-time Boolean and retopology toolset for Houdini free. Works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.

Friday, November 23rd, 2018

Xsens releases MVN Animate 2019.2

Software for Xsens inertial mocap suits gets support for remote on-body recording, satellite positioning.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal

New app converts scenes created in other editions of V-Ray for use in UE4, also baking out V-Ray lights.

Friday, November 9th, 2018

Quixel releases Quixel Bridge 2018.5

Free app for exporting Megascans assets to other software gets live links to 3ds Max, Houdini, Toolbag.

Thursday, November 8th, 2018

Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0

Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 8

3D clothing design software gets handy new brush-based sculpting, 3D sewing and remeshing tools.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

Edit Blender scenes in VR/AR with new free tool BlenderXR

Place, edit and annotate assets in virtual and mixed reality with this neat open-source user interface.

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4

Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1

Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials

Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

Ephere announces Ornatrix for Cinema 4D

Popular 3ds Max hair, fur and feathers tool coming to Cinema 4D. Sign up to join the beta program.

Monday, October 15th, 2018

Faceware Technologies announces Shepherd

New mocap sync software to link firm's headsets to OptiTrack and Vicon full-body capture systems.

Thursday, October 11th, 2018

Kinematic Lab releases TopoLogiK for 3ds Max

Neat new $35 plugin lets users retopologise models by drawing poly sheets across their surface.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018