SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.
Monday, August 6th, 2018
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Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.
Friday, July 20th, 2018
iToo Software releases RailClone 3.2 for 3ds Max
Parametric modelling plugin gets support for V-Ray Next and Arnold; new food products in asset library.
Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 1.15
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 1.0
New free Substance integration plugin for 3ds Max now out of beta and ready for use in production.
Friday, April 13th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2019
Now shipping: Watch videos of the new features, including support for Open Shading Language and the Advanced Wood procedural map.
Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action
New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Autodesk posts Softimage to Arnold source code on GitHub
Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Q&A: Atoms Crowd co-creator Daniele Federico
We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.
Wednesday, January 17th, 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
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2017
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by our 125,000 Facebook followers.
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018