Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana
New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
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Video: FX Links - real-time water and cloth on Android
Watch FXGear's new tech power some pretty neat gyroscope-aware sims. It does hair and particles too.
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
RandomControl unveils Arion for 3ds Max 3
Hybrid physically based renderer gets support for hair and fur. Now available in open beta.
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.0
Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
The Foundry ships Modo 801
'Monster' across-the-board update includes node-based shading, new animation tools, better dynamics.
Friday, April 25th, 2014
Blender 2.70 ships
Next big update to the open-source 3D app adds volumetrics in Cycles, first of the long-awaited UI changes.
Friday, March 21st, 2014
MakeHuman reaches stable 1.0.0 milestone release
Pioneering open-source character creator now boasts a base mesh optimised for ZBrush and Mudbox.
Monday, March 17th, 2014
Clovis Gay releases Fur Guides Painter for 3ds Max
New plugin lets users style hair faster than with Max's native tools, and paint hair guides freehand.
Monday, February 17th, 2014
Blender Institute to oversee full-length animated movie
Updated: global network of studios taking part includes Oscar-winning production house Autour de Minuit.
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 1.3
Maya fur plugin adds procedural feather geometry, new grooming tools, support for OpenSubdiv.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta
Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.
Monday, November 4th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 1.5
Updated: innovative hybrid 2D/3D tool gets lots of new render features, Python and Alembic 1.5 support.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Sneak peek: the new features in V-Ray 3.0
Next release to boost brute force raytracing and much more, VRay.info reports from End User Event 2013.
Monday, July 1st, 2013