Autodesk ships Flame 2021
Effects and finishing app gets a neat AI-based tool for isolating individual parts of the face, plus support for Dolby Vision HDR.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
GPU-accelerated
Otoy and JangaFX team up to create EmberGen FX
New integrated version of the EmberGen real-time gaseous fluid simulator coming to OctaneRender.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0
LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Download Nvidia's free Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
Create compressed textures for games with this neat Photoshop plugin and standalone application.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant
The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
Bleank ships Black Ink 2020
GPU-accelerated painting app gets interesting new node-based workflow for creating images, plus support for unlimited 64K layers.
Monday, December 23rd, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2020 and Maya LT 2020
Varied update adds support for simulations in cached playback; new retopology and rigging tools.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Uppercut releases U-Render 2019.11 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D now out of early access - and now supports volumetrics.
Friday, November 8th, 2019
Adobe ships After Effects 17.0
Compositing software gets more fluid playback of cached previews, faster Content-Aware fill, better EXR import, Cryptomatte support.
Monday, November 4th, 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
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019