Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014
new features
Andersson Technologies ships SynthEyes 1411
Match-moving tool gets new offset tracking workflow, plus expanded natural-language control system.
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Anastasiy releases MagicPicker 4.0
Colour wheel plugin for Photoshop and Illustrator gets new colour temperature and tone lock controls.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
IKinema adds graph editor to WebAnimate
Updated: Free browser-based service gets new tools for stitching and retargeting motion clips.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Imagineer Systems ships mocha Plus 4.1 and Pro 4.1
Free update to planar tracking tools adds support for multi-part OpenEXR 2.0 files and exporting open splines.
Friday, November 7th, 2014
Trimble ships SketchUp 2015
Now fully 64-bit, and there's no longer any need to buy separate licences for Windows and Mac.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Luxion ships KeyShot 5.1
Renderer gets new procedural materials, better instancing tools; imports animation in C4D format.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
e-on ships LumenRT Studio 2015 and GeoDesign 2015
Real-time visualisation tools get new 'DIVE' core engine, bringing in tech from Vue and PlantFactory.
Friday, October 31st, 2014
Mootzoid releases emPolygonizer 5
Softimage particle meshing plugin comes to Maya, Modo and Fabric Engine. The demo reel is amazing.
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
Marmoset releases Toolbag 2.06
Nice update to render toolkit adds area lights, curves-based colour grading, new set of post effects.
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6
Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
The Foundry details new features of Nuke 9, NukeX 9
New native flipbook panel replaces FrameCycler, plus big speed boosts, particularly to EXR workflow.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014