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Saturday, January 12th, 2019
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Hear The Third Floor discuss the future of visualisation
Discover new trends in previs and postvis at the legendary studio's free talk at Gnomon on 24 January. Watch free online.
Friday, January 11th, 2019
RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Lens V2
Multi-host plugin extends options for stabilising and converting 360° footage, adds little planet effects.
Friday, January 11th, 2019
Wacom launches new $650 Cintiq 16 pen display
Cheapest Cintiq yet features 15.6-inch full HD display, 72% NTSC colour gamut, and Pro Pen 2 stylus.
Thursday, January 10th, 2019
Ephere ships Ornatrix V6 for 3ds Max
Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Agisoft releases Metashape
Popular image-based modelling tool PhotoScan gets a free update speeding up 3D mesh generation - and changing the product name.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for Cinema 4D
Popular renderer now officially available for C4D as well as Max, after four years in development.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
E-Cycles speeds up Blender GPU rendering
New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.4 and launches iClone Open
New open Python API will let developers create custom tools for the real-time animation software.
Sunday, January 6th, 2019
Poly Design releases PolySnow V2 for 3ds Max
Neat plugin adds a particle-based snow layer to 3D scenes, or lets users paint the snow in manually.
Sunday, January 6th, 2019
Realsoft ships Realsoft 3D 8
One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.
Friday, December 28th, 2018
Download Harry Emilianov's free UE4 cloud shader
Free volumetric system generates good-looking animatable clouds in real time inside Unreal Engine.
Thursday, December 27th, 2018
Asolve launches Render Node Monitor 2.0
New cloud-based 3ds Max render management system is aimed at freelancers and smaller studios.
Monday, December 24th, 2018