Autodesk releases SketchBook Pro 6

Desktop sketching and concepting tool gets extra brush options, plus new curve guide and Color Puck.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R14

Updated: Download the demo to try the dynamics tools, brush-based sculpting and AE interoperability.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Discover the secrets of real-time rendering in Maya

Animator Joe Daniels sets out the Viewport 2.0-based workflow he used on his Starfish Ninja short.

Sunday, September 2nd, 2012

Luxion releases KeyShot 3.3 and KeyShotVR

Updated real-time raytracer gets add-on for exporting 3D models for viewing in any HTML5 browser.

Sunday, September 2nd, 2012

Tandent Vision Science releases Lightbrush

Cool new software breaks photos into lighting and surface colour components, for editing separately.

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Disney releases BRDF Explorer

Newly open-sourced tool analyses BRDF data, enabling comparison to data from real-world materials.

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Di-O-Matic ships Voice-O-Matic (Maya Edition) 2.0

Automated lip-sync plugin gets expanded language support, new quality presets, and new Pro edition.

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Eye candy: Chaos Group's 2012 V-Ray showreels

Leading renderer gets not one demo reel but (count 'em) five. And they're all teeth-grindingly gorgeous.

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Luxology demos NPR Kit and XfrogPlants for modo

Updated: Cool non-photorealistic rendering add-on for modo now shipping at a special rate of $149.

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

RandomControl releases Arion 2.0

Physically accurate hybrid renderer gets major update - but it's now mainly for Max and Softimage users.

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

Verold to add animation support to Verold Studio

Sign up now to beta test the new tools in this web-based system for displaying and sharing 3D assets.

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

ASTC: a new codec for 3D images?

Unity staff proclaim The Khronos Group's new normal-supporting compression technology awesome.

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

FXGear unveils FluX: a new node-based fluid simulator

Still pining for Naiad? This highly scalable, Alembic-supporting tool could be exactly what you need.

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012