Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2
Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
new features
Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 14.1 for After Effects
Free update to effects plugins GPU-accelerates Trapcode Form; adds DoF and IBL in Trapcode Mir.
Monday, April 23rd, 2018
Quadspinner ships Gaea 2480
Promising landscape generation tool gets new scale controls for erosion, better user control over soil, rain and snow distribution.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.3 for 3ds Max
Framework for converting Max scenes into browser-based apps adds support for V-Ray materials.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 1.0
New free Substance integration plugin for 3ds Max now out of beta and ready for use in production.
Friday, April 13th, 2018
Luxion ships KeyShot 7.3 plus new free KeyShot Viewer
Free standalone viewer lets non-users open and interact with scenes created in the renderer.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Autodesk ships Flame 2019
Effects and compositing software to get new grading and look dev features, HDR Waveform scope, and improved real-time playback.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.2
Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
Adobe releases After Effects CC 15.1
Nifty new Master Properties system for managing nested comps, plus revamped puppet animation tools.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Clarisse adds support for Nvidia's OptiX denoising
2D/3D rendering system gets fast, AI-based image denoising for both the 3D viewport and final renders.
Friday, March 30th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 1
3ds Max production renderer adds support for Nvidia's AI-based OptiX denoising system, hybrid CPU/GPU texture baking, adaptive sampling.
Friday, March 30th, 2018
Foundry ships Modo 12.0
First release in the Modo 12 Series overhauls the Mesh Paint tool, and adds a neat new Surface Strips system to MeshFusion modelling.
Thursday, March 29th, 2018