The Foundry releases Colorway 2.0
Iterative look design tool gets streamlined for team collaboration. Free until January, then available on subscription only.
Friday, November 13th, 2015
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Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.9
Wide-ranging update adds new rendering and animation options, plus experimental support for DirectX 12.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
Gnomon ships Introduction to Maya 2016
Maya expert Eric Keller's 11-hour tutorial provides a complete guide to the industry-standard 3D app.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Nuke
Edit V-Ray lights, materials and render properties directly inside Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
Gnomon releases Figure Fundamentals Volume 1
New three-hour video by figurative painter Van Arno provides a boot camp in anatomy drawing skills.
Saturday, July 18th, 2015
The Foundry releases Katana 2
Heavyweight lighting & look dev tool gets new public API, support for Lua scripting, improved performance.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Otoy ships OctaneRender for Nuke
Live linking plugin lets users render native 3D geometry or ORBX scenes in OctaneRender from within Nuke.
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3
Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Unreal Engine 4.7 ships
Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Serif launches Affinity Photo as free beta
Potential $50 Photoshop rival offers solid pro workflow, advanced tools like 'inpainting' and tilt-shift blur.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
HDR Sets releases HDR Sets GUI 1.2 for free
Create Smart IBL lighting setups in Maya and V-Ray semi-automatically with this handy free helper script.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
Autodesk releases 123D Sculpt+ for iOS and Android
New app provides useful sculpting, painting and character-posing toolkit for creating assets on the move.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015