Foundry unveils Athera, its new cloud-based VFX platform
Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.
Monday, April 30th, 2018
Maya
Get handy free VFX pipeline management tool Prism
Open-source app handles common asset and render management tasks. Integrates with Blender, Max, Maya, Houdini, Nuke.
Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Gnomon ships 3D Scan and Retopology for Production
New nine-hour tutorial provides a detailed guide to generating animatable character meshes via photogrammetry.
Friday, April 27th, 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
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Master Environment Creation for VR Using Photogrammetry
Create a detailed, production-ready immersive environment inside Unity with Gnomon's step-by-step guide.
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.2
Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
IKinema unveils Project Studio
New software framework will let users 'mix and match' toolsets from the firm's motion capture data solving and streaming products.
Monday, March 26th, 2018
Eye candy: the new Fracture FX client reel
See people, buildings and vehicles explode spectacularly in the Maya demolition tool's greatest hits reel.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19
Update adds live link plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, material layers, physical units for lights.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Autodesk ships Mudbox 2018.2
First major update to the digital sculpting tool in years adds neat new dynamic tessellation system, plus support for HiDPI displays.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Get Introduction to the UV Toolkit in Autodesk Maya 2018
Master key UV workflows with Gnomon's detailed training video, using assets from artists at The Mill and Guerrilla Games.
Friday, March 9th, 2018
Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action
New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.
Thursday, March 8th, 2018