Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.3
Texture painting tool gets 'huge boost' to viewport performance and quality, better symmetry painting.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
GPU-based
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Foundry ships Modo 12.2
Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.
Friday, November 16th, 2018
Next Limit releases RealFlow | Maya 1.1
First update to the Maya edition of RealFlow adds Visualizer daemon to preview forces in the viewport.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya
Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast
See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini 17
Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
New Streaming Server script live-links Mosketch to Maya
Pose characters by drawing in the viewport with Moka Studio's innovative animation tool, then see the result in Maya.
Friday, October 5th, 2018
Download Video Copilot's free Orb plugin for After Effects
Free plugin generates realistic 3D planets, complete with physically based shading and atmospheres.
Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20
Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system
'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Iray for 3ds Max 1.8 and Iray for Maya 2.1 both ship
Plugin editions of the GPU-based renderer add a bloom filter and better AI denoising in Max; UDIM support in Maya.
Friday, August 3rd, 2018