Sneak peek: 3ds Max's updated Nitrous viewport
'Will it be in 3ds Max 2014?' teaser video shows improved performance on multi-million-poly scenes
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
new features
Autodesk to unveil 2014 product line on 27 March
Join the Unfold event live in Montreal or watch it online, then quiz product managers via the Unfold website.
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R14
Updated: Download the demo to try the dynamics tools, brush-based sculpting and AE interoperability.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
LightWave 11.5 feature list 'announced'
Although probably not officially, given that it's on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Warning: may contain spoilers.
Friday, July 27th, 2012
CoreCG releases MentalCore 1.3
Update to Maya/mental ray toolkit adds new colour bleed SSS shader, support for SprayTrace renderer.
Friday, May 11th, 2012
Next Limit announces RealFlow 2013
Latest update to fluid simulator adds powerful new Hybrido 2 fluid solver and new node-based scene graph.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Blender 2.63 ships
Latest update to the open-source 3D package adds support for n-gons and an improved sculpting workflow.
Monday, April 30th, 2012
e-on software unveils Vue 10.5 Infinite and xStream
Environment-generation apps get option to stack EcoSystems, new Python and network render tools.
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 6.0
Small but powerful Mac-only 3D app gains Bullet physics, improved FBX SDK and support for 16-bit textures.
Monday, April 16th, 2012
Adobe unveils Production Premium CS6 product suite
Premiere Pro gets new UI, OpenCL support; After Effects gains 3D tracker and raytrace render engine.
Friday, April 13th, 2012
mental ray 3.10 adds Ptex support, 'major' iray update
Autodesk posts full feature list for renderer: no word yet on which will be exposed in Max, Maya, Softimage.
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Softimage 2013 to get new CrowdFX crowd tools
Upcoming update to add ICE-based crowd simulation system and new high-quality viewport display.
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Autodesk announces new features of Maya 2013
Lots of new animation tools, better interoperability with MotionBuilder, and nHair sims - but no iray just yet.
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012