Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19

Update adds live link plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, material layers, physical units for lights.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Autodesk ships Mudbox 2018.2

First major update to the digital sculpting tool in years adds neat new dynamic tessellation system, plus support for HiDPI displays.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action

New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

Chaos Group launches V-Ray Cloud in beta

Sign up now to test this intuitive new cloud rendering service integrated directly inside V-Ray.

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Latest beta adds Nvidia's AI-based OptiX render denoising system, GPU volume rendering, updates to the hair shader.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Autodesk posts Softimage to Arnold source code on GitHub

Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Try this impressive new FLIP fluid simulator for Blender

Sign up to beta test Ryan Guy and Dennis Fassbaender's production-ready fluid solver for Blender 2.79.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.6

3ds Max particle tool gets neat new 'All Purpose Fields' to help art direct simulations, OpenVDB support.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Luxion ships KeyShot 7.2

Renderer gets improved support for HiDPI displays and option to export metadata in XMP format, plus integration with Deadline.

Thursday, January 25th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 1 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Updated: Find more info on the new light cache analysis-based 'smart features' like auto exposure.

Monday, January 22nd, 2018

Gnomon releases Vehicle Modeling for Production

Master hard-surface modeling in Maya with Psyop veteran James Schauf's detailed eight-hour guide.

Friday, January 19th, 2018

Q&A: Atoms Crowd co-creator Daniele Federico

We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5

Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018