Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1

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

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

NewTek ships LightWave 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Otoy and JangaFX team up to create EmberGen FX

New integrated version of the EmberGen real-time gaseous fluid simulator coming to OctaneRender.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

See the new features due in Megascans and Quixel Mixer

Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

Chaos Group launches the V-Ray Education Collection

New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Download 37 free 3D models from 3D Model Haven

Get free props and environment models in FBX and Blender format with PBR textures. CC0 licence.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Nukeygara unveils the Akeytsu 2020 product roadmap

Check out the new features due in the animation software this year, like auto-rigging and retargeting.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 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

Glassbox Technologies releases BeeHive

Interesting collaboration tool for virtual production and VR syncs scene editing sessions across Maya, UE4 and Unity.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020

Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1

Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.

Friday, March 13th, 2020

Epic Games acquires facial mocap firm Cubic Motion

Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos.

Friday, March 13th, 2020

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.1

Big update gives the visualisation tool new rendering features, better 3D characters and plants - and an aggressive new price.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020