Planetside ships Terragen 3
Updated: landscape generator gets better GI, Linux render nodes. Both commercial editions now shipping.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
new features
Massive Software unveils Massive 6.0, Massive for Maya
Crowd-simulation system to get new UI, support for Bullet physics - and a new dedicated Maya edition.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Corel ships Painter X3
Digital paint package gets better brush-editing worflow, Photoshop-like jitter options, nice perspective guides.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
NewTek announces ChronoSculpt
New tool for sculpting animation caches lets users refine work or "paint out" simulation errors by hand.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Golaem announces Golaem Crowd 2.5
Maya crowd-simulation system gets ability to instantiate environment models, not just skinned characters.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Thinkbox Software expands Maya product line-up
Maya versions of the Frost point cloud meshing and XMesh geometry caching systems are on the way.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
Dynamixyz announces Performer 7
Up-and-coming markerless facial mocap system gets new background solving and scripting options.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
Tweak Software unveils RV 4.0
Image viewer and playback tool gets hardware-accelerated architecture, option to author GLSL shaders.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
Blender 2.68 ships
Open-source 3D package gets new modelling tools, improved smoke sims, up to 30% render speed boost.
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 5.1
Production-management system gets cleaner UI, handy workflow tweaks. Watch a bite-size video tour.
Monday, July 8th, 2013
Foundry to develop Sony Pictures Imageworks' Flix
Hybrid web-based storyboarding, previz and layout tool manages shots all the way from 2D boards to final animation.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
Motiva ships Colimo 1.7
Free update to clever tool for relighting rendered images in real time includes native V-Ray support.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013