Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 4.1
Games texturing tool gets new baking options and ability to group nodes. Eight new video tutorials, too.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
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Thinkbox Software ships XMesh MY
New Maya version of the 3ds Max plugin for caching animated geometry speeds up work in mixed pipelines.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Luxion ships KeyShot 4.2
Update adds nice usability features, including the option to set the number of CPU cores used in renders.
Friday, October 11th, 2013
Video: layered materials in Unreal Engine 4
Updated with new video: see how Epic's next-gen game engine was used in its Infiltrator tech demo.
Friday, September 27th, 2013
DNA Research releases 3Delight for Softimage 4.0
RenderMan-compliant renderer gets new interactive relighting workflow, speed boost of up to ten times.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Tutorial: Octane Render for Maya with Christophe Desse
Updated with new video: Watch the Naughty Dog artist's guide to using Otoy's GPU-accelerated engine.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
Lagoa opens collaborative cloud rendering service
Exciting new service lets users upload models and generate photorealistic renders via a browser.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Eye candy: Epic's Infiltrator Unreal Engine 4 demo
Latest outing for the game engine shows physically based materials and some very nice HDR reflections.
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Luxion ships KeyShot 3.2
Update to real-time rendering tool improves materials workflow, adds support for Maya 2013 scenes.
Thursday, May 24th, 2012