Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020

Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

Check out Muhammad Etman's Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool 2.0

FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.3

Big update to the 3D painting app adds support for Photoshop .abr brushes, automatic UV unwrapping.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2019

Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2019.1 VS and RS

UV unwrapping tools for DCC work and product design now run on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.

Friday, December 6th, 2019

Adobe unveils Project Anorigami

See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Houdini

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Autodesk ships Flame 2020

Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.

Tuesday, April 16th, 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

NewTek ships LightWave 2019

Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory

Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0

Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Optimise your Maya UV layouts with NPK_UV_Layout 1.0

Unify UV scale across 3D objects with Weta modeller Niels Peter Kaagaard's neat commercial script.

Thursday, August 30th, 2018

Iray for 3ds Max 1.8 and Iray for Maya 2.1 both ship

Plugin editions of the GPU-based renderer add a bloom filter and better AI denoising in Max; UDIM support in Maya.

Friday, August 3rd, 2018