Effective TDs ships Storm 0.5
Big update to the standalone fluid simulation tool adds new smoke solver, option to upres sims, and 'complete procedural VDB toolkit'.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Linux
Khronos Group finalises radical new OpenCL 3.0 spec
New spec aims to reboot the GPU compute API for a new generation of CG tools. SDK now available.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Download the first public demo of Redshift 3.0
New trial edition lets you test this major update to the GPU renderer, even if you aren't an existing user.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Foundry releases Mari 4.6v4
See the new local space transform mode and updates to baking workflow in the 3D texturing tool. Now available on macOS again.
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.0 VS and RS
UV unwrapping and packing tools get Photoshop-style system for distributing UV islands, new autosave feature.
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Get free USDZ file converter and viewer Reality Converter
Check out Apple's new app for converting 3D models to USDZ, along with free alternatives for Windows and Linux.
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
Get animation tool TAFA free
Veteran morph-based facial animation tool available as a free download. The UI shows its age, but many users still swear by it.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Michael Christophersson ships Ramma 1.25
Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
Quixel ships Bridge 2019.5
Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2019.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools for DCC work and product design now run on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Friday, December 6th, 2019
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free
Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019