Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
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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
Cospective releases cineSync 4.1.5
Remote shot review system adds option to play back multiple clips as a single continuous file sequence.
Friday, September 7th, 2018
Anastasiy ships MixColors 3.0
Neat physically based Photoshop colour mixing plugin gets new Smart Color Groups system; support for keyboard shortcuts.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20
Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Sneak peek: Houdini 17's new PolyDraw tool
See the new direct modeling system coming up in the next major release of SideFX's 3D animation software.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.5
Maya crowd animation tool gets layered caches for rigid body dynamics, new 'self clone' option to increase density in flocking sims.
Friday, August 24th, 2018
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 7.11
Production tracking system gets Calculated Fields to automate data processing; new graphing options.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4
Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Autodesk ships Maya 2018.4 and Maya LT 2018.4
Now shipping: update adds Arnold region rendering in the viewport, improved Render Setup workflow.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15
Now officially released: grading and editing app gets over 250 compositing tools from Fusion.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for Maya
Update improves the IPR and GPU rendering architectures, extends the new toon and hair shaders.
Saturday, August 11th, 2018