Autodesk ships Flame 2021
Effects and finishing app gets a neat AI-based tool for isolating individual parts of the face, plus support for Dolby Vision HDR.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
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Boris FX ships Silhouette Paint
New touch-up and rig removal plugin makes Silhouette's paint tools available inside compositing apps like Nuke and After Effects.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Autodesk to make 3ds Max Indie available worldwide
$250/year subscriptions for Max users earning under $100,000/year to roll out worldwide 'at some point'
Monday, March 30th, 2020
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Get CG software for free during the coronavirus outbreak
Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Get Shawn Olson's Wall Worm plugins for 3ds Max for free
Download the handy free suite of modelling, texturing and layout tools for 3ds Max game artists.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Autodesk to end maintenance plans and multi-user subs
Maintenance updates to old perpetual licences of tools like 3ds Max and Maya to end in May 2021.
Friday, February 28th, 2020
Download the Maya 2019/2020 Bonus Tools
Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya modelling, layout and rigging add-ons, including 11 new tools.
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
Autodesk to raise price of multi-user subscriptions
Cost of multi-user subs to 3ds Max and Maya to go up around 14%; M&E Collection up around 33%.
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Wacom launches $400 Wacom One pen display
Cheapest Wacom pen display yet connects to your Android phone as well as Windows and Mac PCs.
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Michael Christophersson ships Ramma 1.25
Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
Autodesk ships Mudbox 2020
Smallest annual update to the sculpting software in recent history adds one new feature - a data link to Flame - and just two bugfixes.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019