Savage Interactive ships Procreate 5
Big update to the iPad sketching and painting app adds new brush editor and more animation tools.
Monday, December 9th, 2019
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Crunchy Creatives ships Physics Now! 2.0
Free update to the After Effects physics plugin lets users link simulation objects into assemblies.
Friday, December 6th, 2019
Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2019.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools for DCC work and product design now run on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Friday, December 6th, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4D
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system, improves rendering of caustics.
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 18
Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Maya Update 2
Update adds RTX-accelerated GPU ray tracing, new animation-friendly light cache and deep EXR output.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2020.3
MAXtoA plugin updated to support Arnold 5.4, but otherwise, it's mainly bugfixes this time round.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.0 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets new rigid body solver and texture UVW system. 3ds Max edition now integrated with thinkingParticles.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
Get free VFX image viewer and playback tool DJV 2
Ex-Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's shot review tool is engineered for serious VFX and animation work.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.8 for Maya
Free GPU renderer gets new 'full spectrum rendering' mode for hybrid rasterised/ray traced viewport previews.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.4
Landscape-generation software's new path tracing render mode is now officially production-ready.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019