Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3
Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
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Reallusion ships iClone 7.7 and Character Creator 3.2
Real-time 3D character tools get new Digital Human Shader for more realistic skin, eyes and hair.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Abvent ships Artlantis 2020
Architectural renderer gets new image denoiser, light portal system, more types of 3D grass, and RAL colour presets to mimic real paints.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020.2
Compositing and finishing software gets new machine-learning-based tools to identify and isolate human heads and bodies from footage.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Boris FX ships Silhouette 2020
Sizeable update to the rotoscoping and paint software adds features across the board. Mocha planar tracker now thrown in for free.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2020
Major free update to the sculpting app adds new history-aware brushes, option to paint or sculpt on the UV unwrap of a model.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.2
3D modelling and animation tool gets new mPath render engine, new Planar IK solver for character rigging, new Edge Chamfer tool.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system and new hair materials to the renderer.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.6
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2019.1
Next-gen material authoring tool now out of beta. First official release adds new delighter filter.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0
Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Adobe ships Dimension 3.0
Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.
Monday, November 4th, 2019