e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.1
Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations.
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
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Kinematic Lab releases PhysX Painter 2.0 for 3ds Max
Amazing plugin for painting objects into scenes under gravity also now lets you Attract or Explode them.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
Adobe ships Photoshop 22.2 and Photoshop on the iPad 2.1
Image editing apps get new cloud collaboration tools. Desktop edition gets new vector shape controls.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Sneak peek: Instant Terra 2.0
Video: see the new animation toolset in the next major version of Wysilab's terrain generation tool, due for release later this month.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2102
3D tracking software gets support for Apple's new M1 processors and for modern high-DPI monitors.
Monday, February 8th, 2021
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.9 and Affinity Designer 1.9
Image-editing and vector design apps get external file referencing, GPU acceleration on Windows 10.
Monday, February 8th, 2021
Savage Interactive ships Procreate Pocket 4.0
Big update brings the iPhone edition of the drawing and painting app in line with the iPad version.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.10
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
Bondware ships Poser 12
First major update to the figure posing and animation software in five years adds RTX-accelerated ray tracing, CPU render denoising.
Monday, February 1st, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances
Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2021.1
Material-authoring software gets support for Pantone colours - and now exports actual 3D geometry.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2021.1
3D texture painting tool gets new Geometry Mask system, plus option to copy effects between layers.
Friday, January 29th, 2021