Moka Studio ships Mosketch

Pose characters by drawing limb positions and lines of action directly onto the viewport with Moka Studio's intriguing new tool.

Friday, May 5th, 2017

Paste models between 3D apps with this neat free tool

Paste geometry and UV maps between 3D packages with Oliver Hotz's OD_CopyPasteExternal.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 6.5

3D clothing design tool gets new features to fine-tune cloth sims, including option to glue imported meshes to the fabric.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Alexey Vanzhula releases Flux HDA for Houdini

Updated: Create complex real-time Booleans with this neat new tool. Also works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Fabric Software releases Fabric Engine 2.5

Platform for developing CG tools gets revamped Tab Search, 'Kludge' API for incorporating external C++ libraries.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5

Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.

Friday, April 21st, 2017

SideFX cuts price of Houdini Engine

Cost of monthly rentals down from $195/month to $100/month; new $35/week option added.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for Rhino

Latest Rhino edition of the renderer gets 500 readymade materials; V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.

Sunday, April 9th, 2017

Redshift team to make Redshift available on Macs

Popular GPU-based renderer coming to OS X. Maya version to ship first, with Cinema 4D and Houdini to follow.

Thursday, April 6th, 2017

3DtoAll ships MaxToModo

New live export plugin gets scenes from 3ds Max to Modo 'in two clicks'. Converts V-Ray materials to Modo equivalents automatically.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

Master Environment Creation for Film and Cinematics

New Gnomon tutorial reveals how to create a photorealistic 3D environment from start to finish.

Sunday, April 2nd, 2017

D3CRYPT3D aims to protect your 3D models from piracy

Updated: Beta 2 of new anti-piracy tech for preventing unauthorised use of 3D models available free.

Saturday, April 1st, 2017

Sneak peek: Arnold 5

See new features due in the next release of the renderer, including a physically based hair shader, better volumetrics, and support for OSL.

Friday, March 31st, 2017