Nvidia releases Mental Ray for Maya 1.2
First version of the renderer compatible with Maya 2018, and with Nvidia's upcoming Volta GPUs.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
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CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 7
3D clothing design tool gets neat new dynamics options, new modular clothing design mode. Price down $60.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
Pilgway releases 3D-Coat 4.8
Now shipping: Update extends the sculpting and painting app's Smart Materials and retopo systems, adds support for RenderMan rendering.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
WTools3D releases LWCAD Lite 5.25
3ds Max and Cinema 4D edition of the versatile modelling plugin gets new UV mapping and cutting tools.
Monday, September 25th, 2017
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.4
Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.
Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for Maya
Big update adds hybrid CPU/GPU rendering; V-Ray materials and lights work directly in Viewport 2.0.
Thursday, September 14th, 2017
Check out the new features in Blender 2.79
Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
BitConfused launches Cage v3
Online project management system aims to provide all-in-one solution for tracking and reviewing 2D assets like concept art and trailers.
Monday, September 4th, 2017
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R19
Now shipping. See videos of the new LoD system, motion graphics tools and media core; and the Radeon ProRender render engine.
Friday, September 1st, 2017
Autodesk ships Maya LT 2018
Cut-down version of Maya for game artists gets Mudbox-style vector displacement map stamping, updates to Graph and Time Editors.
Friday, September 1st, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.2
Update adds spline tools based on Boomer Labs' SplineTools plugin. Subscription users can run extra cloud instances free.
Thursday, August 31st, 2017
Download Graph Editor Redux 3.0 for Maya for free
Get Double Negative TD Ron Bublitz's neat - and newly updated - revamp of Maya's curve editor.
Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1708
Camera tracking app gets improved export to After Effects and Fusion; support for HEVC video compression.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017