Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0
Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Alembic
iMeshup lets game devs review 3D models in a web browser
New WebGL-based online service lets users comment or approve 3D assets in a standard web browser.
Monday, January 28th, 2019
IDV ships SpeedTree Engine for Clarisse iFX
New version of the tree-creation tech lets users generate variant trees and animation inside Clarisse.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Ephere ships Ornatrix V6 for 3ds Max
Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 3.6 SP7
Free update to the look dev and rendering system adds support for Disney's principled shader model.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.3
Update adds interactive rendering in the ActiveShade viewport, plus better OSL and Alembic support.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
Next Limit releases RealFlow | 3ds Max 1.0
Create RealFlow simulations inside 3ds Max with the new cut-down plugin version of the fluid simulator.
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free 7-hour Venom VFX training course
Free video tutorials reveal how to recreate everyone's favourite alien symbiote in 3ds Max and V-Ray. Includes project files.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Next Limit releases RealFlow | Maya 1.1
First update to the Maya edition of RealFlow adds Visualizer daemon to preview forces in the viewport.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Notch Builder lets you author motion graphics in real time
Interesting new tool lets users link cloners, particles, fluids and volumetrics and see the results rendered on the fly.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.2
Release adds new Fluid Loader object for tweaking and rendering cached sims, further updates to Alembic and OSL.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Chaos Group releases Beta 3 of V-Ray Next for Maya
Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising.
Monday, September 17th, 2018