Sneak peek: Houdini 17's new PolyDraw tool

See the new direct modeling system coming up in the next major release of SideFX's 3D animation software.

Tuesday, August 28th, 2018

Basefount ships Miarmy 6.5

Maya crowd animation tool gets layered caches for rigid body dynamics, new 'self clone' option to increase density in flocking sims.

Friday, August 24th, 2018

Lenovo unveils the ThinkPad P1

At just 1.7kg, the competitively specced new mobile graphics workstation is the 'thinnest, lightest and sleekest' ThinkPad in history.

Tuesday, August 21st, 2018

Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2019 for Unreal Engine

New integration promises UE4 users GPU-based light field baking and support for ORBX scenes.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system

'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

Try V-Ray Cloud for free

Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.

Monday, August 13th, 2018

Reallusion launches Motion Live for iClone

Updated: Nifty plugin lets users mix data from multiple mocap systems - and now iPhone X facial tracking.

Sunday, August 12th, 2018

Master Creating Assets for Games using Photogrammetry

EA DICE artist Guilherme Rambelli's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial details current industry workflows.

Thursday, August 9th, 2018

Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 2.0

Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2018

Polywink creates blendshapes and rigs for any head model

Digital doubles firm Eisko's new online service also readies 3D avatars for animation on iPhone X.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0

Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.

Friday, July 20th, 2018

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2

Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

Foundry ships Flix 5.4

Pro 'story development' tool gets new options when drawing storyboard panels in Photoshop and publishing to Premiere Pro.

Monday, July 9th, 2018