Sneak peek: ZBrush 2021
See the new features in Pixologic's sculpting software, including better instancing and poly modeling - and an eye-catching set of cloth tools.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
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Maxon unveils Project: Neutron
Check out the new node-based architecture coming to Cinema 4D in the next release, along with support for USD and Python 3.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2020 update
Major update to the Cinema 4D physics plugin adds powerful new fluids, flocking and scattering tools.
Saturday, July 4th, 2020
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 5
The next generation of V-Ray is now out of beta, and available to buy. Check out the new features in Chaos Group's powerful renderer.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Houdini Update 1
First update to the Houdini edition of the renderer adds support for custom AOVs and debug shading.
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
cebas ships finalRender Drop 4
3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
iCube R&D Group ships MultiScatter 1.5 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin gets improved object painting and distribution, plus option to scatter V-Ray Lights.
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
Andrei Sarmadac and Kun Shi release Rocket 3F 1.8
Streamlined modeling software gets new portable edition that can be run from a flash drive.
Friday, September 20th, 2019
SideFX unveils Solaris
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Maya 2019.2 and Bifrost for Maya
Big update introduces new visual programming system for physics simulations, with new fire, smoke and snow solvers.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Do these videos show new simulation features in Maya?
Watch an enigmatic set of teasers of smoke, fire, cloth and granular fluids, posted to Autodesk's Twitter.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Basefount ships Miarmy 7.0
Maya crowd simulation tool now supports a wider range of character rigs for crowd agents. Viewport and rendering performance improved.
Thursday, June 13th, 2019