Autodesk ships Flame 2024.2
Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new workflow for subtitles and H.264 export.
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0
Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Isotropix has discontinued Clarisse
Updated: Emails sent to users say that sales and development of the layout & look dev tool have ended.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
Foundry stops development of Colorway
Dev team for Foundry's tool for visualising variants of product designs now assigned to Modo.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
Autodesk ships Flame 2023.3
Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.
Saturday, December 10th, 2022
Clara.io is closing down
Access to the pioneering browser-based 3D modelling and rendering tool and its library of 500,000 free 3D models to end on 31 December.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Chaos releases Chaos Player Update 1
Image sequence viewer gets new Contacts Sheet system for viewing render elements and shot variants.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
U-Render shuts down
Developer of the real-time renderer for Cinema 4D files for insolvency citing economic fallout from COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine.
Monday, October 17th, 2022
The ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge is now free
But KeyShot for ZBrush has been scrapped, raising the overall cost of using the renderer with the sculpting app.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2022
Deep Rising FX and Deep FX Studio discontinued
Deep FX World ends work on its LightWave fluid simulation plugin and standalone multiphysics app.
Monday, June 20th, 2022
Chaos discontinues V-Ray for Modo and Katana
Sales of the Modo and Katana editions of the renderer have ended, but support continues until December 2022.
Friday, January 21st, 2022
IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0
Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.
Monday, January 17th, 2022
5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021
Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.
Friday, December 31st, 2021