Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0
Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
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Chris West updates Terrain plugin for 3ds Max
Popular plugin turns online DEM data into 3D terrain inside 3ds Max - now to 30m resolution worldwide.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 18.0
Compositing app gets new real-time draft preview mode for 3D work. Separate beta build adds support for multi-frame rendering.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store
Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Exlevel ships GrowFX 2.0
Long-awaited overhaul of the 3ds Max plant-generation plugin adds new Node Editor for authoring plants via visual programming.
Monday, March 8th, 2021
Erik Lehmann releases RS Shader Kit 2.0 for Maya
Check out the Scanline VFX artist's compact, streamlined alternative to the native Hypershade interface.
Saturday, March 6th, 2021
Anastasiy releases MagicRefs 2.0 for Photoshop
Reference image manager gets option to tag images and organise image groups into collections.
Thursday, March 4th, 2021
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2021.6
Free update to the digital sculpting app adds neat curve-based brushes, new Mesh from Mask system, USD import and export.
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 17.1
Free update to the compositing app adds new tools for retiming animations, 2D vector shapes for motion graphics.
Monday, March 1st, 2021
Discover 10 key new features from Blender 2.92
Discover the most important new tools in the open-source 3D app, from geometry nodes to APIC sims.
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1
Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Corel ships Painter Essentials 8
Sub-$50 natural media painting software gets support for Apple's M1 chips, more AI-based auto-paint options, new colour harmonies.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2021