Insydium ships the X-Particles 2020 update
Major update to the Cinema 4D physics plugin adds powerful new fluids, flocking and scattering tools.
Saturday, July 4th, 2020
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AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.
Monday, May 18th, 2020
Inkscape 1.0 ships
Open-source vector design tool reaches its milestone 1.0 release. Check out the new drawing, vector editing and export features here.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
EmberGen is now in beta
JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.
Monday, May 4th, 2020
Insydium releases X-Particles 2020 features in beta
Check out the new ocean surface and flocking systems in the Cinema 4D particle and physics add-on.
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Arseniy Korablev releases Teya Conceptor
Unusual concept sculpting tool formerly known as Polybrush gets streamlined new UI, macOS edition.
Thursday, March 12th, 2020
Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
KeenTools releases free beta of FaceBuilder for Blender
New edition of the neat VFX tool creates 3D head models from source photos directly in Blender.
Monday, December 23rd, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.0 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets new rigid body solver and texture UVW system. 3ds Max edition now integrated with thinkingParticles.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year
Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.
Thursday, October 17th, 2019