Faceware ships Analyzer 3.8, Retargeter 5.8 and Shepherd
Neat AI-driven updates to firm's markerless facial capture software boost quality of automated solves.
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
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Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.2
3D app for graphic designers gets support for cloud rendering and Substance materials, but the old V-Ray render engine has gone.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Adobe releases After Effects CC 16.1
Spring 2019 update adds Content-Aware Fill for automatic object removal, new Expressions Editor.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Adobe releases Character Animator CC 2.1
2D animation tool gets Character Trigger extension for Twitch streamers, workflow improvements.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22
Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.5
Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.13 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulation tools get support for VDB particle caches. FLIP liquid simulations now 'up to 2x' faster.
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020
New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
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
Otoy reveals OctaneRender 2019 product roadmap
See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1903
3D tracking software gets new 'ViewShift' system for object removal and combining split takes.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Sneak peek: Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max
Next update to add Intel's CPU-based, AI-driven render denoising technology and improved caustics.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
World Machine 3025 'Alpine Lakes' ships
Terrain-generation tool can now automatically create rivers and lakes according to rainfall and surface flow.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019