Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4

Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.

Monday, November 17th, 2014

The Foundry buys Mischief creator Made With Mischief

Cult $25 pen-sketching tool becomes The Foundry's first truly mass-market digital art product.

Thursday, November 13th, 2014

Mootzoid releases emPolygonizer 5

Softimage particle meshing plugin comes to Maya, Modo and Fabric Engine. The demo reel is amazing.

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3

Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

The Foundry launches Colorway

Updated: New tool iterates colour, lighting and materials in 3D renders. Now for C4D as well as Modo.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

Side Effects releases Houdini Indie

Updated: new edition gives anyone making under $100K the full feature set of Houdini FX for $199/year.

Friday, August 8th, 2014

Autodesk launches Maya LT on Steam

Updated: rental price cut to $30 per month. Annual rental cut from $400 to $240 in Autodesk's own store.

Monday, June 9th, 2014

Lightmap ships LightWave plugin for HDR Light Studio

LightWave3D Live Connection lets users create HDRIs in real time, and see the results in LightWave's VPR.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Q&A: Oblivion concept artist Thom Tenery

The top architectural designer looks back on a career that spans malls, Doom 4 and Hollywood movies.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3

Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs 2013

Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, November 7th, 2013

Q&A: Dylan Cole

The top concept artist explains his workflow - and reveals why listening to metal can help your matte work.

Monday, September 9th, 2013

The best new software from Siggraph 2013

Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013