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
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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
Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1
3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Silhouette 2021.5 ships
Boris FX's roto and paint software gets new color correction and grading features. Now available as a plugin for Nuke and After Effects.
Thursday, August 19th, 2021
Google shuts Zync Render
Check out the discounts available to former users of Google's cloud-based platform for VFX work from rival cloud rendering services.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2021
Tilt Brush goes open source
Google stops development of its virtual reality 3D painting and concept art app, but users can now compile it free from source code.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Marvelous Designer goes subscription-only
Sales of perpetual licences of the 3D clothing design tool to end with Marvelous Designer 10 this fall.
Monday, July 13th, 2020
Autodesk to end maintenance plans and multi-user subs
Maintenance updates to old perpetual licences of tools like 3ds Max and Maya to end in May 2021.
Friday, February 28th, 2020
Check out promising free 3D scanning app Display.land
Free iOS and Android app generates 3D scans of entire environments for use in games and AR experiences.
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
Adobe discontinues Fuse
Free 3D character generator will not be updated for macOS 10.15 next month, and all downloads will be removed in September 2020.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019