Shotgun Software rolls out integrated client review site
Free Shotgun 5.3 update lets users share assets securely with clients directly within the Shotgun browser.
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
new features
Paint your crowd sims with Golaem Crowd 3.2
Maya crowd simulator adds option to control actor density and behaviour simply by painting on the ground.
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
The Foundry ships Mari 2.6
Good update for games artists adds physically correct shading, layered GLSL shaders, in-viewport IBL.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Red Giant Software unveils Magic Bullet Looks 2.5
Free GPU-accelerated update to colour-grading tool offers "up to 95%" speed boost on Windows.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
AXYZ design releases an(i)ma 1.6
3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation system gets new cloning tools and V-Ray 3.0 compatibility.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 3.0
Maya crowd simulation system gets better support for deforming terrain - and option to render out in 3ds Max.
Monday, March 24th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 1.5
Updated: Renderer gets Alembic support and real-time animation scrubbing with motion blur. Neat.
Friday, March 21st, 2014
Videos: see the new features in Maya 2015
Major update adds new FX tools, new skinning system, lots of smaller features. See them all in action here.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Autodesk announces its 2015 product releases
We assess the feature lists of the upcoming Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage 2015.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
Thinkbox Software unveils Stoke MX 2.0
Updated and now in open beta: high-density 3ds Max particle toolkit gets new field-manipulation tools.
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Sneak peek: magnetic modelling in 3ds Max 2015
See the first teaser of the new smart modelling workflow in the upcoming release - an official one, this time.
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Trimble ships SketchUp 2014
Better compatibility with BIM tools for Pro users; plus speed boosts and WebGL support in 3D Warehouse.
Friday, February 28th, 2014
Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 3.1
Maya crowd-simulation system gets new visual debugging system, support for Arnold's mtoa 1.x plugin.
Friday, February 28th, 2014