Adobe acquires Medium
Firm acquires VR modelling and painting app from Facebook. Some staff to move to Adobe to work on the 'next generation of 3D tools'.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
modelling
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 7.3
Sub-$100 Mac-only 3D software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, new dark UI theme.
Friday, October 19th, 2018
IDV launches SpeedTree Modeler for Unity 5
Create unique trees complete with LoDs, collision primitives and wind forces for use with the Unity 5 beta.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
Maxon releases Cinema 4D R16
Now shipping: latest update adds camera tracker, layered reflections and PolyPen modelling/retopo tool.
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Blender 2.68 ships
Open-source 3D package gets new modelling tools, improved smoke sims, up to 30% render speed boost.
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Discover the new features of 3D-Coat 4.0
Pilgway posts nice new video tour of its voxel sculpting package. But still no word on when 4.0 is out of beta.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Read e-on software's FAQs for The Plant Factory
Promising standalone plant-creation system to feature node graph and option to 'paint' plants manually.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Autodesk unveils ReCap Studio and ReCap Photo
New products reconstruct 3D environments from scan data and photographs. Get Studio for free.
Friday, March 29th, 2013
Autodesk announces new features of Maya 2014
Watch videos of the new modelling, scene assembly and Paint Effects options and the DirectX 11 viewport.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Sneak peek: Maya's new retopology tools
Watch the new resurfacing workflow, including a new Quad Draw tool like that in digitalRaster's NEX plugin.
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Videos: How Weta created the creatures of The Hobbit
Updated: New video shows the environment work, along with Gollum, Azog and the Goblin King.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Marius Silaghi releases Subd Recovery
Need to rig or unwrap a model you got online? This $40 app will recover its original subdivision levels.
Friday, February 8th, 2013
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 6.2
Free update to the low-cost Mac-only 3D app adds ABF UV unwrapping, better ring and loop selection tools.
Friday, February 1st, 2013