Planetside Software unveils Terragen Sky
Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.
Monday, December 19th, 2022
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Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini
Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.
Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.3
AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Southpaw Technology launches Tactic Atlas
New cloud-based media archiving system helps VFX and CG firms build online libraries of key assets.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12
Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2023.3
3D modelling and rendering app gets new OSL maps to create organic noise and randomise UVs.
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
5 key features in Blender 3.4
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Autodesk releases Maya 2023.3
3D animation tool to get workflow improvements to Proximity Wrap, the Graph Editor and Time Editor.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Download free Unity ebooks for technical and VFX artists
Free PDF guides provide overviews of the game engine's key toolsets, with downloadable examples.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Clara.io is closing down
Access to the pioneering browser-based 3D modelling and rendering tool and its library of 500,000 free 3D models to end on 31 December.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Rokoko launches free AI mocap tool Rokoko Video
Free browser-based tool generates animation in FBX and BVH format for use in apps like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.
Monday, December 5th, 2022
Foundry acquires Peregrine Labs' Bokeh plugin for Nuke
$99/year lens simulation plugin will be integrated into the compositing app for free - including Nuke Indie.
Friday, December 2nd, 2022