Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.1
Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 7.2
3D texture painting app gets better auto UV unwrapping, support for the new Adobe Standard Material.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 11.2
Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Foundry ships Mari 4.0
Workflow-focused update gives the texture-painting app a decluttered new UI and better interoperability with other key VFX pipeline tools.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
AAA Studio releases FurryBall RT 1.4
GPU-based renderer gets new toon shader, support for Arnold's Ai Standard shader - and the 3ds Max edition is back.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
The Foundry ships Mari 3.1
Texturing tool gets neat new system to smooth freehand paint strokes, better interoperability with Maya.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
DAZ 3D ships Victoria 7
Popular stock figure gets new facial rig, plus OpenSubdiv and UDIM support to increase compatibility with other 3D apps.
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
You can do it! VFX releases Nyx Voltron
Handy new tool lets users live-link (almost) anything in 3ds Max to its equivalent in After Effects. Try it free until 31 July.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 18.5
$75 image-editing app gets new Polar Coordinates filter, improved workflow with other graphics tools.
Wednesday, September 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
Autodesk announces its 2015 product releases
We assess the feature lists of the upcoming Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage 2015.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
Pixar's USD system: the new super-Alembic?
Universal Scene Description could help exchange entire production scenes between VFX pipeline tools.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R14
Updated: Download the demo to try the dynamics tools, brush-based sculpting and AE interoperability.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012