Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
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Roper Technologies acquires Foundry
Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Review: Nvidia Titan RTX
Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service
Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Mario Baldi releases Edge Flow 2.0 for Modo
Handy Modo add-on automatically 'relaxes' edge loops to create clean, animation-ready topology.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200
Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists
Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Foundry ships Modo 12.2
Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.
Friday, November 16th, 2018
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4
Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Foundry makes its software free to students for a year
New Education Collective bundles also provide ongoing discounts on Nuke, Mari, Modo and Katana.
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation
Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR 1.5
Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.
Friday, September 7th, 2018
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Modo
VFX artist Gennaro Esposito's new video tutorial provides a quick-start guide to the key tools in Modo 12.
Monday, July 16th, 2018