Adobe releases After Effects 25.0
Compositing software gets 'more modern', legible interface design, and 'decluttered' 3D model import. See all of the changes here.
Monday, October 14th, 2024
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.4
Material authoring tool gets quality-of-life updates when working with nodes, formulas or the 3D View.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
Discover how to create FACS facial blendshapes in Maya
Master facial modelling for animation with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, April 25th, 2021
Effective TDs ships Storm 0.5
Big update to the standalone fluid simulation tool adds new smoke solver, option to upres sims, and 'complete procedural VDB toolkit'.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal Update 3
Plugin transfers scenes created in other editions of V-Ray to UE4 for rendering. Check out what's new.
Thursday, June 25th, 2020
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2020
Mocap editing software gets option to declutter animation playback, plus support for unlimited Undos.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2019.1 and Maya LT 2019.1
Maya 2019.1 adds new options to use light expressions and overrides with render layers. Mainly bugfixes in Maya LT 2019.1.
Thursday, May 30th, 2019
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0
Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.
Friday, February 1st, 2019
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 6.3 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin adds option to edit distribution and colour of objects during interactive renders.
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Photoshop CC 20.0 ships; Photoshop for iPad due in 2019
Desktop edition gets long-awaited workflow improvements; 'real' Photoshop due on iOS next year.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
Create free CG characters with Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.6.1
Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.
Sunday, January 28th, 2018