QuadSpinner ships Gaea 1.0.29 and previews Gaea 1.2
Check out the terrain design tool's new 2.5D viewport, procedural snow and ice, and flow data maps.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
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AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Rokoko launches Blender plugin for its mocap systems
New integration plugin lets users stream data to Blender from Rokoko's low-cost mocap suits.
Friday, February 7th, 2020
Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 4.8 for Maya
Shattering and dynamics plugin gets speed boosts to shatter tools, including 3x boost to previews.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Download the Maya 2019/2020 Bonus Tools
Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya modelling, layout and rigging add-ons, including 11 new tools.
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
Godot 3.2 ships
Leading open-source game engine gets revamped shader editor, glTF 2.0 and FBX import, and a new pseudo-3D system for 2D games.
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Anastasiy ships MagicPicker 7.1
Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets new HUD mode, plus improved performance on older hardware.
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Check out the new features in ftrack Review 4.5
Check out the new features in ftrack's lightweight cloud-based shot review and approval system.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Alexey Vanzhula releases Modeler 1.0 for Houdini
Versatile hard-surface modelling toolkit brings workflow in Houdini more in line with other DCC tools.
Monday, January 20th, 2020
Aartform ships Curvy 3D 4.0
First update to the unusual sketch-based modelling tool in six years adds new mesh deformation and Boolean features, plus SVG import.
Saturday, December 28th, 2019
Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP5
Shot layout and look dev tool gets new firefly filtering system, better handling of Light Path Expressions.
Friday, December 27th, 2019