The Captury releases Captury Studio 1.0
Intriguing new markerless mocap system promises to capture any actor, anywhere - including animals.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Alembic
Nvidia releases new mental ray Alembic import shader
Free download adds support for hair and subdivision controls for NURBS and sub-Ds. Works with Maya 2015.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Check out 2015's hottest Blender R&D projects
Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal previews the software's upcoming features: from stereo 3D to Alembic and Ptex support.
Monday, January 5th, 2015
Exocortex open sources Exocortex Crate
Suite of Alembic tools for 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Arnold and Python now available under GPL3 licence.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max SP1
Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.
Friday, December 12th, 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
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
Autodesk releases Maya & 3ds Max 2015 Extension 1
New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana
New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Eyeon ships Fusion 7
First full update to the compositing package in five years throws in the $995 Dimension stereo tools for free.
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
Autodesk ships FBX Review for Mac and iOS devices
Free asset-review tool comes to Macs and iPads on top of Windows; adds support for geometry caches.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
The Foundry ships Mari 2.6
Good update for games artists adds physically correct shading, layered GLSL shaders, in-viewport IBL.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 1.5
Updated: Renderer gets Alembic support and real-time animation scrubbing with motion blur. Neat.
Friday, March 21st, 2014