Ephere releases Ornatrix 1.3 for Maya
Popular hair-creation plugin gets new tools for generating realistic mesh hair, new dynamics options.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
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Luxion ships KeyShot 7 HD and KeyShot 7 Pro for ZBrush
Low-cost versions of the renderer for ZBrush users get new UI customisation, materials and environment options.
Thursday, August 17th, 2017
E-on software ships PlantFactory 2016 R3
Plant-creation tool gets new pruning algorithms when manually painting plants; improved export.
Saturday, August 12th, 2017
E-on ships Vue Infinite 2016 R3 and Vue xStream R3
Free quarterly update to the digital nature tools speeds up saving, extends the new Path Tracer render engine.
Saturday, August 12th, 2017
Esri ships CityEngine 2017.0
Powerful 3D city-generation software used on Independence Day 2 gets new measurement and building customisation toolsets.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Pixar unveils RenderMan 22 and RenderMan XPU
Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
Fabric Software announces Fabric Engine 2.6
Platform for developing VFX and games tools gets support for USD, Autodesk's AnimX, new RBF solver.
Friday, August 4th, 2017
Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 14 for After Effects
New version of the motion graphics and VFX plugin suite includes big updates to Particular and Form.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 9 Studio
Major update cuts the price of the compositor to $299, adds unlimited network rendering, new tracking, VR and review tools.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Pixar ships RenderMan 21.5
Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5
Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.
Monday, July 31st, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2017.2
3D texture painting app gets new Anchor Points system for creating smart multi-layer materials, free live linking plugin to Unity.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017