Notch Builder lets you author motion graphics in real time
Interesting new tool lets users link cloners, particles, fluids and volumetrics and see the results rendered on the fly.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Cinema 4D
Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR 1.5
Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.
Friday, September 7th, 2018
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20
Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
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
Eye candy: Foam Studio's beautiful C4D R20 demo short
See everyday objects twisted into strange and colourful forms with Cinema 4D R20's fields system.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
Eye candy: Maxon's 2018 Cinema 4D showreel
New C4D work from Blade Runner 2049 to medical animation, via some beautifully bizarre CG shorts.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018
Powerful procedural modelling plugin for LightWave gets new toolsets for automatically generating windows and railings.
Monday, June 18th, 2018
AAA Studio makes FurryBall RT renderer available 'free'
GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D now discontinued, but still available for a "symbolic price" of €29/year.
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Otoy reveals its roadmap for OctaneRender 2018 and 2019
Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
Next Limit ships RealFlow | Cinema 4D 2.5
Now shipping: Fluid simulator gets viewport visualisation of forces, vertex maps for blending fluids.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D
Updated: turn 3D assets created in Blender - and now also in 3ds Max - into interactive scenes you can view in a standard web browser.
Friday, February 9th, 2018
Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D moves into free beta
Beta 1 release adds support for interactive rendering, the Corona Image Editor, and material layering.
Monday, February 5th, 2018