Foundry ships Modo 13.1

It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.

Friday, August 16th, 2019

Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering

All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo

Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

Foundry ships Modo 13.0

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Mario Baldi releases Edge Flow 2.0 for Modo

Handy Modo add-on automatically 'relaxes' edge loops to create clean, animation-ready topology.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019

The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Modo

VFX artist Gennaro Esposito's new video tutorial provides a quick-start guide to the key tools in Modo 12.

Monday, July 16th, 2018

Foundry ships Modo Indie 11

Long-awaited update adds the Unreal Engine live bridge and tools from the Modo 11 Series itself, glTF 2.0 support. Free to current users.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 11.2

Videos: See the new Principled BRDF shader and procedural modelling tools in action. Lots of UV workflow improvements, too.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

Sergio Mucino releases maxTD Rigging Toolbox for Modo

Former Rodeo FX artist's suite of personal tools simplifies the task of creating complex mechanical rigs.

Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

Foundry ships Modo 11.1

Videos: Update adds live bridge to Unreal Engine, better modelling and UV packing tools, option to bake object space normal maps.

Friday, June 30th, 2017

Foundry releases Modo 11.0

New modelling options and support for OpenSubdiv 3.0, but the main news this time round is the new rental and maintenance plans.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Modo

New native Modo version of renderer uses same core tech as Max and Maya versions, but costs $340 less.

Wednesday, July 6th, 2016

The Foundry releases Modo 10.1

Now shipping: Latest Modo 10 Series update adds cool procedural modelling system. Plays nicely with MeshFusion, too.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016