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
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Master Creating Assets for Games using Photogrammetry
EA DICE artist Guilherme Rambelli's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial details current industry workflows.
Thursday, August 9th, 2018
SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.
Monday, August 6th, 2018
Clarisse Builder launches
Supercharged edition of Isotropix's layout and look dev app puts all of Clarisse iFX's tools into a powerful new node-based environment.
Thursday, July 19th, 2018
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Modo
VFX artist Gennaro Esposito's new video tutorial provides a quick-start guide to the key tools in Modo 12.
Monday, July 16th, 2018
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers
See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Mechanical Color's Dara tools for Modo go open-source
Popular set of Modo modelling, shading and rendering plugins now available free under an MIT licence.
Friday, June 8th, 2018
Sneak peek: 3Delight integration in Katana 3.0
Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
NewTek ships LightWave 2018
Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.
Monday, January 1st, 2018
The Gnomon Workshop ships Hyper-realistic Insect Design
Model, texture and render realistic insects in ZBrush, Maya and Substance Painter with Eric Keller's detailed tutorial.
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Act-3D releases Lumion 8.0
Real-time visualisation tool gets new Styles option for generating render variants, new Sky Light and soft shadows, support for 4K video.
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Adobe ships Dimension CC
Videos: Check out this intuitive new V-Ray powered rendering and compositing tool, targeted at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Houdini 17
Get started with Houdini with Psyop veteran Robby Branham's step-by-step guide to core workflows.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017