Flowbox ships Flowbox 1.7, integrates Mocha

Smart roto tool gets new edition with the Academy Award-winning planar tracker integrated into it.

Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.15

Free game engine gets readymade components for generating roads and rivers, new pose blending options in the animation editor.

Monday, July 30th, 2018

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11.4

Low-cost digital painting tool gets real-time preview for clone sources, new reverse image search feature.

Friday, July 27th, 2018

Download Grzegorz Baran's 16 spherical 8K HDRIs for free

Use the Ubisoft environment artist's discount code to get his new 360 HDRI Panorama Pack 01 for free.

Friday, July 27th, 2018

Curó generates and tracks budgets for VFX projects

Avatar VFX producer Joyce Cox's new online platform provides a smarter way to cost out VFX shows.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Polywink creates blendshapes and rigs for any head model

Digital doubles firm Eisko's new online service also readies 3D avatars for animation on iPhone X.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.2

Terrain rendering times cut by up to 4x, plus new option to use a render as a projected texture on export.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018

Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.5 for 3ds Max and Blender

Tool for converting 3D scenes into WebGL apps relaxes restrictions on physical materials; adds anisotropic texture filtering.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018

Sneak peek: Blender 2.8 new principled hair shader

Neat new Cycles shader is based on work done by Disney for Zootopia, also used in V-Ray Next.

Monday, July 23rd, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.20

UE4-based visualisation platform gets iterative import workflow, new SketchUp exporter, MDL support.

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20

Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0

Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.

Friday, July 20th, 2018

Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.2

Material authoring tool gets neat new 'Shape Splatter' system, plus initial release of new Python API.

Friday, July 20th, 2018