Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Houdini
Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Autodesk joins Khronos Group
FBX developer to join open standards body's 3D Formats Working Group to support development of the glTF file format.
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.13 for Blender and 3ds Max
Tool for turning Blender scenes into 3D web apps gets support for Eevee shadows, Matcap materials, toon shading effects.
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Rokoko launches facial capture add-on for its mocap systems
New iPhone X app lets you capture facial animation alongside full-body data and stream it to UE4, Unity or MotionBuilder.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
Design Connected releases Connecter 1.7
Free standalone 3D asset browser with tight links to 3ds Max and Cinema 4D adds support for Substance materials.
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Quixel ships Bridge 2019.2
VFX-focused update to the asset management tool for Megascans scan data adds USD support, plus new integration for Clarisse iFX.
Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Download four new free Renderpeople 3D characters
Includes an animated male figure and two rigged female figures. Multiple common 3D formats; for commercial use.
Monday, July 8th, 2019
Get Allan McKay's free Thanos VFX video training course
Destroy the Avengers antihero using 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD in this epic set of free tutorials.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
Download Justen Lazarro's free Ultimate Trim texturing tools
Neat add-ons automate Insomniac Games' fast environment asset workflow in 3ds Max, Blender and the Substance apps.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
Pixar releases Opensubdiv 3.4
Open-source subdivision library used in many DCC tools now supports same feature set for Loop and Catmull-Clark subdivision.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
RayFire Studios releases RayFire for Unity
New Unity edition of the popular 3ds Max destruction tool lets users destroy 3D geometry at runtime.
Monday, July 1st, 2019
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.8
3ds Max particle and multiphysics system gets over 30 new nodes for working with volume data in OpenVDB format.
Monday, July 1st, 2019