Blender 2.78b ships
New update improves speed of Blender's Cycles renderer over 10x on shots with motion blur and hair.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
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Cryptomatte automatically pulls ID mattes from renders
Updated: Psyop's open-source tech for pulling mattes from Arnold renders now works with Fusion as well as Nuke.
Monday, January 23rd, 2017
Insydium ships Cycles 4D
Promising new plugin implements Blender's powerful GPU-based renderer and node-based materials inside Cinema 4D.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Neoglyphic Entertainment ships NeoFur 2.0 for UE4
Real-time hair and fur plugin now supports motion blur, import of NURBS curves from DCC tools.
Monday, October 10th, 2016
Unity Technologies ships Unity 5.4
New update to the game engine extends the particle controls and Cinematic Image Effects add-on.
Saturday, July 30th, 2016
DNA Research ships beta of 3Delight for Katana
RenderMan-compliant production renderer gets new Katana edition with improved support for OSL.
Friday, July 15th, 2016
Eye candy: Unity's amazing photorealistic Adam demo
Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.
Monday, June 20th, 2016
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for Nuke
Update tightens integration between V-Ray and Nuke, adds new features from 3ds Max edition of the renderer.
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
Blender 2.77 ships
Updated: Open-source 3D tool gets support for OpenVDB volumetrics, better sculpting and Boolean tools.
Monday, March 21st, 2016
Luxion ships KeyShot 6.1
Update extends renderer's HDRI design and toon rendering capabilities and adds support for camera motion blur in animations.
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
Download innoBright's free tech preview of Altus 1.0
Intriguing new tool denoises Arnold, V-Ray, Corona and Redshift renders, generating clean images 2-9x faster.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 4.0 for 3ds Max
First update to top gaseous fluid simulator in three years boosts speed, adds new tools for art directing sims.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.8
Updated: Now officially shipping. New downloadable .exe file for the UE4 Kite demo due this week, too.
Thursday, June 11th, 2015