Side Effects ships Houdini 15 and Houdini Engine 2.0

Wide-ranging update adds new modelling, animation, simulation tools; native support for RenderMan RIS shaders.

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Autodesk launches Stingray game engine

New engine to ship on 19 August from $30/month, with suite of supporting middleware. Free to Maya LT users.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

See the proposed dev schedule for Blender 2.8

Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015

The Foundry reveals entire feature set of Modo 901

Videos: see the key features of this major update, including the new Advanced Viewport and FX tools.

Friday, May 22nd, 2015

Next Limit announces RFCORE for Cinema 4D

New addition to RealFlow product line will let users create and render liquid sims directly inside C4D.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

Discover the new features in Maya 2016

Videos: see the new sculpting tools, Delta Mush deformer, updates to Bifrost and revamped Hypershade.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max 2016

Strong update adds node-based tool-authoring system, new physical camera, improved Alembic and OpenSubdiv support.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Nvidia releases PhysX source code on GitHub

Get the full C++ source of the top game physics system, including the clothing and destruction libraries.

Thursday, March 5th, 2015

Navié releases Effex 2.5 for Cinema 4D

Big update to multiphysics system adds surface tension, Bullet dynamics, lots of other cool tools.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.0

Much-anticipated next-gen games texture-painting tool finally ships. Check out the key features here.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

Shade3D Co buys rights to Shade 3D from e frontier

Key product staff spin out new firm to develop veteran Japanese 3D app. New English release planned.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2014's technical papers

Watch our pick of the show's hottest research, from physics sims and motion synthesis to... um, pixie dust.

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

The Foundry ships Modo 801

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

Friday, April 25th, 2014