Exocortex launches V-Ray cloud rendering in Clara.io
Embed interactive V-Ray streams from the browser-based 3D modelling tool into your web pages .
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
new features
Next Limit ships RealFlow 2014
Fluid simulator adds viscosity, new Ocean Force daemon, support for the Arnold renderer. Price down too.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Eyeon ships Fusion 7
First full update to the compositing package in five years throws in the $995 Dimension stereo tools for free.
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.0
Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
The Foundry ships Ocula 4
'Complete overhaul' of Nuke stereo toolkit streamlines workflow and adds support for GPU acceleration.
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Leap Motion controller to track individual joint motion
Free update to $80 gesture controller will deliver more precise mocap data to indie hand-tracking systems.
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Eye candy: Miarmy's cool VFX crowds reel
See some amazing shots created in the Maya crowd-simulation system from studios all over the world.
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Thinkbox Software releases Stoke MX 2.0 for 3ds Max
Increasingly versatile simulation tool now incorporates firm's $595 Genome geometry modifier.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014
Esri ships CityEngine 2014.0
Powerful procedural city-generation tool gets new plugins integrating it with Maya and Unity.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
RandomControl ships Arion for 3ds Max 2.70
Big update to unbiased renderer boosts speed, ups maximum render size, adds new relighting workflow.
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
Luxion ships KeyShot 5
Intuitive renderer with growing following among concept artists adds instancing, Sun & Sky system.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Pixar to make RenderMan free for non-commercial use
Unrestricted free version due this summer. Price of commercial version cut to just $495, effective now.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Unity 4.5 ships
Mainly bugfixes this time, but there are new 2D physics tools, plus stereo support for DirectX 11 games.
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014