Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
new features
Act-3D releases Lumion 10.3
Real-time visualisation software gets an improved render preview, support for displacement maps, new live link plugin for AutoCAD.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
cebas ships finalRender Drop 4
3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.1
Big update gives the visualisation tool new rendering features, better 3D characters and plants - and an aggressive new price.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
FXGear ships Qualoth 2020
Robust Maya cloth plugin gets support for Maya 2020's cached playback system for simulations, finer control over cloth collisions.
Friday, March 6th, 2020
Check out the Blender 3.0 and LTS product roadmap
Next big update to the open-source 3D software due in 2021, with long term support releases every year.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
OpenToonz developers release OpenToonz 1.4
Open-source 2D animation app gets stop-frame animation tools; vector-guided perspective drawing.
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10.18
Nice workflow update gives the open-source image editor Photoshop-like tool groups, faster PSD import, new 3D Transform tool.
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Serif ships Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher 1.8.6
Check out the neat new features in Serif's professional image-editing, vector design and layout tools.
Friday, February 28th, 2020
iCube R&D Group ships MultiScatter 1.5 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin gets improved object painting and distribution, plus option to scatter V-Ray Lights.
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.23
Free game engine gets new cloth simulation system for clothing and environment assets, plus better character animation performance.
Monday, February 24th, 2020
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.1
Update adds new GPU-based lens blur filter with more realistic Bokeh, plus the option to perform multiple Content-Aware Fills in one go.
Friday, February 21st, 2020