Marius Silaghi ships Unwrap Pro for 3ds Max

Promising new UV unfolding plugin gives 'low-distortion, overlap-free' results even on complex models.

Thursday, April 27th, 2017

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 6.5

3D clothing design tool gets new features to fine-tune cloth sims, including option to glue imported meshes to the fabric.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Silicon Studio ships Xenko 2.0

Rendering middleware firm's 'next-level C# game engine' now shipping commercially, but still free to individuals and indie studios.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Alexey Vanzhula releases Flux HDA for Houdini

Updated: Create complex real-time Booleans with this neat new tool. Also works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Foundry unveils Elara

New cloud-based service will provide a complete VFX pipeline in a web browser, including software, storage, rendering and analytics.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Foundry releases Nuke 11 product family in beta

Speed and open standards focused update adds support for VFX Reference Platform 2017, extends GPU acceleration.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.6 for 3ds Max

Update to renderer adds new standalone image editor for EXRs, improves sampling, relighting and distributed rendering.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

Fabric Software releases Fabric Engine 2.5

Platform for developing CG tools gets revamped Tab Search, 'Kludge' API for incorporating external C++ libraries.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

Foundry releases Modo 11.0

New modelling options and support for OpenSubdiv 3.0, but the main news this time round is the new rental and maintenance plans.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

HP unveils two new DreamColor pro displays

New 31-inch Z31x features built-in colorimeter and KVM switch; new 24-inch Z24x G2 will cost $559.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

Sneak peek: Mari 3.3

Corrected: Changes include option to re-edit paint already committed to a model. Radically decluttered new GUI due in a future release.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

HP unveils first VR-ready mobile graphics workstation

New ZBook 17 G4 also joined by new versions of the ZBook 15 and ZBook Studio, and a new Ultrabook, the 14u.

Friday, April 21st, 2017

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5

Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.

Friday, April 21st, 2017