AMD to pay $120,000/year towards Blender development
CPU and GPU firm's sponsorship will help to fund Vulkan support within the open-source 3D tool.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
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Unity subscription prices to rise in 2020
Cost of new Plus subscriptions to rise 14%; new Pro subscriptions up 20%. Existing subs unaffected.
Friday, October 18th, 2019
Check out neat physics-based animation app Cascadeur
Updated: Nekki's unusual animation software gets new rigging tools, updated AI-based AutoPosing system.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Apple acquires IKinema
Motion capture technology firm's middleware and IKinema Action plugin for Maya are no longer available for sale on its website.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Rookies 2019 rankings reveal the world's best CG schools
US schools Gnomon and SVA place top for visual effects and animation; Malaysia's The One Academy best for concept art.
Thursday, September 12th, 2019
RealityCapture gets new 'pay-per-input' pricing
New pricing makes the powerful photogrammetry tool available for a mimum payment of just over $20.
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Indie
New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.
Friday, September 6th, 2019
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.6
Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.
Friday, August 30th, 2019
Alienbrain releases Alienbrain 2019
Artist-focused version control system gets native UE4 integration, new annual subscription pricing.
Monday, August 26th, 2019
Unity 2019.2 ships
Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link
Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Download Justen Lazarro's free Ultimate Trim texturing tools
Neat add-ons automate Insomniac Games' fast environment asset workflow in 3ds Max, Blender and the Substance apps.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019