Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX
Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.
Friday, July 16th, 2021
Maya
OptiTrack ships Motive 3.0
In beta: optical mocap software's new 'Quantum Solver' can track 10 actors simultaneously. See all of its new features and new pricing.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Pilgway ships 3DCoat 2021
Long-awaited major update to the sculpting and painting app ships. Check out the new features, and changes to pricing and plugins.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.2 for Blender and Maya
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.
Monday, July 12th, 2021
Take-Two Interactive Software acquires Dynamixyz
Dynamixyz's facial mocap tech now available exclusively to Take-Two's own studios like Rockstar Games.
Monday, July 5th, 2021
Download the free edition of RenderMan 24
Get the latest Non-Commercial edition of Pixar's renderer for personal use and plugin creation.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Pixar ships RenderMan for Blender
New RenderMan integration places the open-source 3D app on the same footing as Maya or Houdini.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
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
Maxon ships Redshift 3.0.46
GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
Weta Digital unveils WetaM
New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
Use Faceware Studio for free for six months
New PLE licences of the real-time facial mocap software can be used with MetaHumans in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Multiverse | USD 6.7 ships
Check out the new features in J Cube's USD-native Maya layout, look dev and lighting toolset. Freelancers can use it for free.
Monday, June 7th, 2021
Luxion ships KeyShot 10.2
Rendering and technical animation software gets new automated mesh simplification tool, and updates to the material library.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2021