Next Limit unveils Maxwell Render 3.1

VFX-friendly release to add support for OpenVDB, Mari's UDIM textures, improved skin rendering system.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Q&A: Titanfall lead artist Joel Emslie

The games veteran discusses his concept workflow, and the art of building bitchin' maquettes of mechs.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2014

The Foundry ships Modo 801

'Monster' across-the-board update includes node-based shading, new animation tools, better dynamics.

Friday, April 25th, 2014

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max

It's out of beta! Read more about version 3.0's render speed boosts, new features, and new pricing here.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla Render

Updated with more details: Download a free licence of the VFX renderer used by Prime Focus on Total Recall.

Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 1.5

Updated: innovative hybrid 2D/3D tool gets lots of new render features, Python and Alembic 1.5 support.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2013

Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 8

UV unwrapping tool now handles million-triangle meshes and outputs multi-grid UVs for use in Mari.

Thursday, June 6th, 2013

The Foundry releases Nuke and NukeX 6.3v7

Compositing apps gain support for importing layered PSD files and the new OpenColorIO open standard.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012