Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
cel shading
NewTek ships LightWave 2018
Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.
Monday, January 1st, 2018
PSOFT ships Pencil+ 4
Popular 3ds Max cel-shading plugin gets support for material transparency; now works with XRefs and the Nitrous viewport.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
NewTek previews LightWave Next
Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.
Thursday, March 16th, 2017
The Foundry ships NPR 2 Kit for Modo
Add-on for creating stylised render effects gets new XToon shader, options for blending in indirect lighting and reflections.
Friday, June 5th, 2015
NewTek begins shipping LightWave 11.5
Well-received update adds Genoma rigging system, better After Effects interoperability, nice modelling tools.
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R5
Updated: intriguing video shows the new tools in use to turn a DynaMesh sculpt into a hard-surface model.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013