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
3ds max
Sneak peek: interactive renders in Corona Renderer
See the new 3ds Max renderer's CPU-based interactive preview tackle billion-poly instanced scenes.
Monday, October 20th, 2014
e-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2015
3ds Max, Maya and C4D instancing plugin gets intuitive new EcoSystem brushes, plus support for LoDs.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
Autodesk software now free to schools worldwide
3ds Max, Maya, et al now free to colleges worldwide, as well as individual students and teachers.
Friday, October 10th, 2014
Corona Renderer team reveals price, release date
And its 'Fair SaaS' pricing for the much-anticipated 3ds Max renderer sounds a lot like a dig at Adobe.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Download 30 free furniture and kitchenware models
Get Viz-People's high-detail models: some OBJ, all 3ds Max/V-Ray, and all licensed for commercial use.
Monday, October 6th, 2014
Ephere ships Ornatrix V3
3ds Max hair tool adds option to model hair with standard poly tools, improved Nitrous viewport preview.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3
Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Gnomon releases Creating Believable 3D Environments
New two-hour video sets out Blizzard cinematic environment modeling star Seth Thompson's workflow.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Corona Renderer dev team post first Cinema 4D build
Free alpha of the promising renderer includes instancing, basic support for native C4D materials and lights.
Monday, September 8th, 2014
Download free procedural tree models from Laubwerk
Get 144 3ds Max and C4D models showing four common species in different ages and seasonal states.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
Evermotion releases NOX renderer as open source
Unbiased renderer for 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema 4D now available to integrate into other apps.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
Animate like Pixar artists with F.A.S.T. for 3ds Max
Clovis Gay's new plugin provides a fast, intuitive rigging workflow inspired by Pixar's Presto software,
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014