AWS unveils Open 3D Engine
Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
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Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU
Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 3.7
Turn your Blender, 3ds Max and Maya scenes into browser-based 3D apps - and now, into native iOS, Android or desktop apps as well.
Friday, May 28th, 2021
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Godot 3.3 ships
Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Foundry reveals its 2021 Mari product roadmap
3D texturing app to get Python 3 support, new USD workflows and updated brush engine, but macOS edition cancelled.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0
Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2102
3D tracking software gets support for Apple's new M1 processors and for modern high-DPI monitors.
Monday, February 8th, 2021
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools' neat new TopoCopy system is 'first unique feature in UV mapping in years'.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Foundry ships Mari 4.7
3D texture painting tool gets new options for creating and sharing procedural masks, isolating materials, and baking textures.
Friday, December 11th, 2020
Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4
Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Krita Foundation ships Krita 4.4
Open-source painting software gets scriptable fill layers, support for dynamic colour gradients, and improved MyPaint colour picker.
Monday, October 19th, 2020
J Cube unveils new standalone USD editing tool MUSE
Neat work-in-progress tool offers a 'fast, non-destructive' way to modify USD assets outside DCC apps.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020