Xsens updates MVN inertial mocap line-up

Motion-capture suits and software redesigned to provide true VFX-quality data; price cut by up to 30%.

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Trimble ships SketchUp 2015

Now fully 64-bit, and there's no longer any need to buy separate licences for Windows and Mac.

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Gnomon ships full guide to GI in Maya and mental ray

Master key techniques with Frederic Durand's Global Illumination and Caustics in Maya & mental ray.

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

e-on ships LumenRT Studio 2015 and GeoDesign 2015

Real-time visualisation tools get new 'DIVE' core engine, bringing in tech from Vue and PlantFactory.

Friday, October 31st, 2014

3D Systems launches Geomagic Sculpt and Touch

Model in 'virtual clay' with the new sculpting software and rebranded, more affordable haptic 3D stylus.

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Cool tech demo: the Project Proteus fluid simulator

Check out this physically based, 100% parallelised 'next-gen' fluid simulator, soon available in beta.

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Mootzoid releases emPolygonizer 5

Softimage particle meshing plugin comes to Maya, Modo and Fabric Engine. The demo reel is amazing.

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Marmoset releases Toolbag 2.06

Nice update to render toolkit adds area lights, curves-based colour grading, new set of post effects.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6

Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

The extraordinary making of David Levy's PLUG

Updated: The Prometheus concept artist's VFX short turns Terminator's story on its head. Watch it here.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

The Foundry releases free Sketchfab kit for Modo

Publish models to view interactively online in any WebGL browser from directly within Modo 601 and above.

Monday, October 27th, 2014

Quixel releases Quixel Suite

Updated: new versions of NDO and DDO now officially out of beta. New batch options and 16K support too.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014