Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0

Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Download neat new free camera matching tool fSpy

Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.3

Texture painting tool gets 'huge boost' to viewport performance and quality, better symmetry painting.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

Videos: see Siggraph Asia 2018's best technical papers

Watch the best tech demos from the show - from advances in VR to new ways to melt your CG dragon.

Tuesday, November 20th, 2018

Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding

New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.

Monday, November 19th, 2018

Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.3

Landscape-generation software gets new cloud animation controls and new deferred shading mode.

Monday, November 19th, 2018

Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender

OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Get Allan McKay's free 7-hour Venom VFX training course

Free video tutorials reveal how to recreate everyone's favourite alien symbiote in 3ds Max and V-Ray. Includes project files.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.16

Free game engine gets new Simple Motion component for assigning motion clips to characters, plus support for MikkT tangent space.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 12.2

Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15.2

Free update extends support for OpenFX plugins in the new Fusion toolset, adds Beauty plugin for smoothing skin.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2019

Mocha Pro now has 360° tracking tool Mocha VR; Continuum gets 2D particle system particleIllusion.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

QuadSpinner open-sources entire Vue portfolio

Download over 100 free materials, MetaNodes and atmospheres for e-on's landscape-generation app.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018