Foundry ships Modo 12.1
Varied update adds new integrated VR viewport, new hard-surface animation options, improved modelling and UV packing tools.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
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Pixologic ships ZBrush 2018.1
Free patch improves speed and stability when sculpting in ZBrush; adds a few new workflow features.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018
Powerful procedural modelling plugin for LightWave gets new toolsets for automatically generating windows and railings.
Monday, June 18th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.1.2
Texture baking now 'up to 5x' faster on dense meshes; save system reworked to cut project file sizes.
Friday, June 15th, 2018
Anastasiy releases MagicSquire 2.7
Neat Photoshop brush organisation plugin's 'Magic Eraser' system turns any brush into an eraser and back.
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
Foundry ships Mari 4.1
Update improves Mari's handling of colour spaces and selection groups. Mac users get the same features - but in Mari 3.4, not 4.1.
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya v2
Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.
Monday, June 11th, 2018
PipelineFX ships Qube! 7
Renderfarm management tool gets fast new Postgres-based backend architecture. Supervisor licences now free to download and use.
Monday, June 11th, 2018
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.4 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes to browser apps gets new physics module, support for skeletal animation in 3ds Max.
Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
F12 ships The Grove Release 6
Free update to tree generation tool adds new controls for dead branches, plus big improvements to workflow and simulation quality.
Monday, June 4th, 2018
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 7.5
3D clothing design tool gets new UV editor, transform controls for add-ons like props and buttons.
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2018 VS and RizomUV 2018 RS
UV tools formerly known as Unfold3D get new automated unwrapping system and texel density controls.
Thursday, May 24th, 2018