Free tool Kiko ports animation curves from Maya to Nuke
Toolchefs' neat open-source tool transfers curves between DCC apps in a pipeline-friendly way.
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
Houdini
Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini Reality Capture plugin as free beta
New photogrammetry plugin lets artists use RealityCapture's popular toolset directly inside Houdini.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
Sneak peek: Houdini 17's new PolyDraw tool
See the new direct modeling system coming up in the next major release of SideFX's 3D animation software.
Tuesday, August 28th, 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
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 2.0
Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Eye candy: SideFX's 2018 Houdini customer reel
See the best new work created in Houdini, from Blade Runner 2049 to VFX from Germany and Japan.
Monday, August 6th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20
Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Get SideFX's free Sketchfab Uploader for Houdini
New free add-on lets artists export 3D models to their Sketchfab portfolios directly inside Houdini.
Monday, June 18th, 2018
Download free Houdini motion graphics toolset MOPs
Neat set of open-source assets streamlines the creation of common motion graphics effects.
Saturday, June 16th, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 1.15
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Esri ships CityEngine 2018.0
Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets greater integration with Unreal Studio for VR work, new option to distribute geometry along curves.
Friday, May 11th, 2018
Foundry unveils Athera, its new cloud-based VFX platform
Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.
Monday, April 30th, 2018