EmberGen is now in beta

JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.

Monday, May 4th, 2020

Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1

Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

Vulkan now does ray tracing

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

QuadSpinner ships Gaea 1.0.29 and previews Gaea 1.2

Check out the terrain design tool's new 2.5D viewport, procedural snow and ice, and flow data maps.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview

GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs

Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.

Friday, October 11th, 2019

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

Autodesk joins Khronos Group

FBX developer to join open standards body's 3D Formats Working Group to support development of the glTF file format.

Thursday, July 25th, 2019

Tandent Vision Science launches Lightbrush Cloud

New online service splits images into surface colour and illumination maps, to create de-lighted textures.

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019

Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro

Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

New tool Masterpiece Motion lets you rig characters in VR

Intuitive new app lets users place bones and paint skin weights in VR, using an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019