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Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
Alembic
Facebook's Quill VR painting tool now lets you animate, too
Quill 1.4 lets you animate layers or brush strokes frame by frame and export the result in Alembic format.
Friday, February 9th, 2018
J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5
Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.4, 3ds Max Interactive 2.0
Core app gets new fluid simulation options; Stingray-based 'VR engine' gets support for IES light profiles.
Friday, December 8th, 2017
F12 ships The Grove Release 5
Blender-based tree-creation tool gets support for wind animation. Results can be exported to other apps in FBX or Alembic format.
Thursday, November 30th, 2017
Foundry ships Modo 11.2
Videos: See the new Principled BRDF shader and procedural modelling tools in action. Lots of UV workflow improvements, too.
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
IDV ships SpeedTree Cinema 8
Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.3
Updated: Autodesk discusses how the new Fluids simulation toolset stacks up against Bifröst in Maya.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
Next Limit ships RealFlow | Cinema 4D 2.0
Integrated version of RealFlow for C4D gets Dyverso multiphysics solver, support for interacting fluids.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2017
Lucasfilm and ILM open-source MaterialX
New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Foundry partners J Cube to distribute Multiverse Studio
Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Next Limit ships RealFlow 10.1
Videos: sizeable free update to fluid simulator adds new viscous and viscoelastic Dyverso materials; neat new fluid masking system.
Friday, May 19th, 2017