Esri ships CityEngine 2016.0

Powerful procedural city modelling software gets new Alembic exporter for use with visual effects pipelines.

Monday, June 27th, 2016

See BodyPaint 3D's new GPU-based painting engine

The upcoming OpenGL engine in Cinema 4D's painting toolset should improve interactivity when texturing large assets.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

Next Limit releases RealFlow | Cinema 4D

Now shipping: New $795 edition of the fluid simulator is 'fully integrated' inside C4D, though it lacks some advanced tools.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

Eye candy: Unity's amazing photorealistic Adam demo

Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.

Monday, June 20th, 2016

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

Download 500 free HDRIs from HDRI Skies

Updated: Neat set of free HDR sky images covers a range of times of day and weather. Also now includes a free 15K HDR.

Friday, June 17th, 2016

Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap 2.0 for Maya

Inexpensive UV unwrapping tool gets new selection, seam-handling and resymmetry options, better UDIM support.

Thursday, June 16th, 2016

Gnomon ships Developing Storytelling Skills from Life

Illustrator April Connors' three-hour guide to figure drawing sets out essential skills for character and costume designers.

Thursday, June 16th, 2016

Get Chaos Group's free 60 page guide to GPU rendering

Download a PDF overview of key trends and best practices in GPU rendering. Targeted at V-Ray, but useful to anyone.

Thursday, June 16th, 2016

The Foundry releases Modo 10.1

Now shipping: Latest Modo 10 Series update adds cool procedural modelling system. Plays nicely with MeshFusion, too.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

See MotionBuilder mocap data streamed to a HoloLens

Video: Jasper Brekelmans' amazing tech demo displays mocap data on a live 3D avatar in augmented reality.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max

Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

Valve releases Destinations Workshop Tools for free

Create immersive VR environments using the same Source 2 toolset used internally at Valve itself.

Monday, June 13th, 2016