NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Maya
Uppercut unveils its U-Render 2020 product roadmap
Cinema 4D real-time render engine to get support for particle rendering and SSS - and a new Maya edition.
Saturday, April 18th, 2020
Get the free V-Ray for Maya Personal Learning Edition
New PLE edition of the renderer can be used for free indefinitely, unlike the existing trial version.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Ziva Dynamics makes Ziva VFX Academic licences free
Powerful Maya soft tissue simulation plugin now available free to students and educators.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2
Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.
Monday, April 6th, 2020
Golaem ships Golaem 7.3
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Tungsten Drop 4
Check out the changes to the presets system in the latest update to the real-time lighting design tool.
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
Autodesk to make 3ds Max Indie available worldwide
$250/year subscriptions for Max users earning under $100,000/year to roll out worldwide 'at some point'
Monday, March 30th, 2020
Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2
Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Kraken Pro automatically sorts your messy 3D model library
TurboSquid's cloud-based, AI-driven service automatically tags and renders preview images for studios' assets.
Thursday, March 26th, 2020
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.9
Maya soft tissue simulation plugin gets support for file referencing. Now compatible with Maya 2020.
Thursday, March 26th, 2020
Get 150 free mocap moves from Rokoko's Motion Library
Includes 50 new high-impact moves recorded specially by God of War stunt artist Eric Jacobus.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020