Foundry ships Modo 14.0
First Modo 14 Series release adds Ghost and X-ray display modes, plus the option to draw annotations on the viewport in asset reviews.
Friday, March 20th, 2020
modeling
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
Get Shawn Olson's Wall Worm plugins for 3ds Max for free
Download the handy free suite of modelling, texturing and layout tools for 3ds Max game artists.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Check out versatile Cinema 4D plugin NoiseScape v2
Neat add-on creates a beautiful set of procedural displacement effects for motion graphics and CG work.
Monday, February 10th, 2020
Download the Maya 2019/2020 Bonus Tools
Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya modelling, layout and rigging add-ons, including 11 new tools.
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
Alexey Vanzhula releases Modeler 1.0 for Houdini
Versatile hard-surface modelling toolkit brings workflow in Houdini more in line with other DCC tools.
Monday, January 20th, 2020
Aartform ships Curvy 3D 4.0
First update to the unusual sketch-based modelling tool in six years adds new mesh deformation and Boolean features, plus SVG import.
Saturday, December 28th, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2020 and Maya LT 2020
Varied update adds support for simulations in cached playback; new retopology and rigging tools.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018.3
Big free update to the LightWave modelling toolkit adds new tools for UV mapping NURBS surfaces and for converting quads to NURBS.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
Andrei Sarmadac and Kun Shi release Rocket 3F 1.8
Streamlined modeling software gets new portable edition that can be run from a flash drive.
Friday, September 20th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019