Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.0 VS and RS
UV unwrapping and packing tools get Photoshop-style system for distributing UV islands, new autosave feature.
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Blender
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Bforartists 2 ships
New stable release makes the alternative UI design for Blender usable with the new features added in Blender 2.80 and up.
Monday, April 20th, 2020
Otoy and JangaFX team up to create EmberGen FX
New integrated version of the EmberGen real-time gaseous fluid simulator coming to OctaneRender.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Download 37 free 3D models from 3D Model Haven
Get free props and environment models in FBX and Blender format with PBR textures. CC0 licence.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500
Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
Pilgway ships 3DCoat 4.9.34
New stable build of the sculpting and painting tool adds support for Megascans materials; updates the Cloth tool and Blender live link.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.3 and BlendLuxCore 2.3 ship
Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Arseniy Korablev releases Teya Conceptor
Unusual concept sculpting tool formerly known as Polybrush gets streamlined new UI, macOS edition.
Thursday, March 12th, 2020