Eye candy: SideFX's 2019 Houdini customer reel

Check out the best new movies, ads and cinematics created using Houdini, then follow our links to the VFX breakdowns.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 2

Renderer gets new toon shader, debug shading, memory tracking tools, and updates to V-Ray GPU.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Quixel supports the MDL material format in Megascans

Popular library of real-world scan data adopts the cross-application material format supported in V-Ray and Unreal Studio.

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.1 in beta

New C#-scriptable render pipeline and node-based shader editor, but no more native Substance support.

Thursday, January 11th, 2018

Download Unity Labs' free texture de-lighting tool

Neat Unity add-on removes baked-in lighting from textures generated using photogrammetry software.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2017

Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2017 product roadmap

Features to include new cinematics toolsets, a scriptable rendering pipeline, and a new C# job system.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

Adobe chooses V-Ray as core renderer for Project Felix

V-Ray chosen as render engine for new visualisation tool aimed at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

Unity revamps subscriptions in reply to user complaints

Updated: Unity Plus subscribers get option to turn off the splash screen; users of the free Personal edition can customise it.

Friday, June 17th, 2016

Artomatix launches Materialize

Cool new cloud-based service uses an AI-driven system to tile, extend or 'mutate' game textures automatically.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2016

Unity 5.2 ships

Game engine adds support for Windows 10, native integration with Visual Studio, plus new lightmap baking and Biped import options.

Friday, September 11th, 2015

Apple to bring its Metal graphics API to OS X

DirectX and Vulkan competitor to spread from iOS to desktop Macs as part of OS X El Capitan this fall.

Thursday, June 11th, 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

Download 10 free Substance procedural materials

Get Arvin Villapando's new brick, rock and sidewalk materials, for use in Max, Maya, Modo, UDK or Unity.

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015