The Foundry announces Mari for Mac
Industry-standard 3D painting tool coming to OS X alongside Windows and Linux. Register for the beta now.
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
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Discover the new features of 3D-Coat 4.0
Pilgway posts nice new video tour of its voxel sculpting package. But still no word on when 4.0 is out of beta.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
FluidRay RT enters free beta
Updated: Physically accurate renderer based on Intel's Embree kernels becomes available for Mac as well as Windows.
Friday, January 4th, 2013
3D-Coat 4.0 in open beta
Try the update to the voxel sculpting and retopology app today on Windows: Mac and Linux to follow.
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Meet Sparta: it's like ZBrush, but for particles
Lyouta Koduka's intriguing tool for 'sculpting' Maya, Softimage and 3ds Max simulations enters free beta.
Monday, September 17th, 2012
moma: render Maya scenes with modo's render engine
Jacobo Barreiro's two-way bridge between Maya and modo 601 now in open beta and free for anyone to try.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Shotgun Software announces Shotgun 4.0
Update to production-management tool on show at Siggraph, along with beta of shot-review tool Revolver.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Michael Gibson releases MoI for Mac
Updated: OS X version of the 'Zen' NURBS modelling package now out of beta and available commercially.
Saturday, June 16th, 2012
The Foundry releases Windows beta of Hiero
New VFX shot-management tool now available on all three major OSs. Add-on shot viewer planned.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Shotgun Software announces Revolver
Upcoming all-in-one shot review toolset pitched as 'personal screening room' for VFX artists.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Test drive new professional networking site StudioVox
Try out the 'only social community to encompass creatives, agencies and industry' with our free beta code.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Adobe releases free beta of Photoshop CS6
New UI, new OpenEXR capabilities, more speed - but will that Content Aware Move tool actually work?
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Phoenix FD for Maya enters beta testing
V-Ray for Maya users can sign on for early access to Chaos Group's formerly Max-only fluid simulator.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012