Luxion unveils KeyShot 4.1
Intuitive standalone renderer to get caustics, procedural materials and a rather cool-looking new toon shader.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
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Escape Motions releases Flame Painter 2
Unique app for creating images with 'flame brushes' adds power to paint strokes as editable vectors.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Trimble ships SketchUp 2013
New branding, new library of pattern fills, new online Extension Warehouse - but too much else.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Caustic Visualizer 1.1 for Maya adds batch rendering
Real-time raytracing plugin gets option to batch-render animations. Can be set to mimic the look of mental ray, too.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Chaos Group unveils V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp
Try this major update to the renderer while it's in open beta and use $800 of software free for three months.
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 2.2
Budget Maya crowd-simulator adds option to control actors via particles, new squash-and-stretch system.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 5.0
Production-management system gets new simple UI designed to let users filter out key tasks quicker.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Quixel ships dDo 5.0
'Mega update' to Photoshop texturing tool adds Marmoset Skyshop HDR rendering, unlimited triangle count.
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Cool tech videos: X-Particles 2 for Cinema 4D
Update to the particle plugin to add fluids, XPresso integration, full multi-threading. Check 'em all out here.
Friday, May 10th, 2013
Smith Micro announces Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014
Upcoming releases of the figure tools to add Bullet physics, Pixar sub-Ds, interactive raytrace preview.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
The Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.67
Update to the open-source 3D tool adds integration with the versatile Freestyle toon rendering engine.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Planetside releases free edition of Terragen 2.5
Free limited-resolution edition of the landscape tool gains FBX support, new Card node for billboards.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
pmG ships messiahStudio 6
Updated: Extra videos show the cult animation and rendering tool's new Skelevision interactive rigging view.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013