Amazon open-sources Krakatoa, XMesh, Frost, Stoke
Volumetric rendererer and particle tools for 3ds Max and Maya now free via an Apache 2.0 licence.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
licensing change
Foundry ships Katana 6.0
Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.
Friday, December 16th, 2022
Otoy launches OctaneRender Studio+ subscriptions
Firm ditches perpetual licences of the GPU renderer, but adds MoI 3D and Cascadeur to its subs package.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
You can now sell Vue and PlantFactory assets online
Or at least, you will be able to when e-on software introduces its new EULA for the tools later this year.
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
Amazon makes AWS Thinkbox software available free
Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022
U-Render releases U-Render 2022.4 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering toolset, SSGI and multi-materials.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0
Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.
Monday, January 17th, 2022
Maxon ends perpetual licences of Red Giant products
New versions of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite available only via subscriptions.
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Redshift goes subscription-only
Perpetual licences of the GPU renderer discontinued in favour of subscription plans. See the prices for individuals and teams here.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 10.0
3D clothing design tool gets new wrinkle-sculpting brush and much more customisable 3D avatars. Now rental-only.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Marvelous Designer goes subscription-only
Sales of perpetual licences of the 3D clothing design tool to end with Marvelous Designer 10 this fall.
Monday, July 13th, 2020
Trimble is discontinuing perpetual licences of SketchUp
Sales of new Classic licences of the architectural modelling software will stop after 4 November 2020.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0
Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019