Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support
Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
macOS
Foundry ships Mari 4.5
Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Adobe and Moleskine launch new Paper Tablet for pro artists
Creative Cloud Connected 'smart notebook' can send pen-on-paper sketches to Illustrator as editable vector strokes.
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Download free cross-platform 3D file viewer MadView3D
Lightweight 3D model viewer has some neat display options - and runs on a unique set of platforms.
Sunday, January 20th, 2019
Nvidia open-sources PhysX, unveils PhysX SDK 4.0
Real-time physics system now available under a 3-clause BSD licence on PCs and mobile devices.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding
New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 7.3
Sub-$100 Mac-only 3D software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, new dark UI theme.
Friday, October 19th, 2018
Foundry ships Mari 4.2
Long-awaited new mirrored projection system lets users paint symmetrically on any model: no need for a specialised UV layout.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.15
Free game engine gets readymade components for generating roads and rivers, new pose blending options in the animation editor.
Monday, July 30th, 2018
Blackmagic Design launches the Blackmagic eGPU
Competitively priced new external GPU accelerates CG apps like DaVinci Resolve on Mac hardware.
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Autodesk makes SketchBook free for individual artists
Powerful sketching tool for concept design and illustration now free on Windows, OS X, Android and iOS.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS
Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Otoy reveals its roadmap for OctaneRender 2018 and 2019
Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018