Uppercut releases U-Render 2020.5 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D gets support for subsurface scattering, translucency.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
OpenGL
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.2 and Maya LT 2020.2
Latest update to the 3D software improves workflow in the Outliner, and adds new Target Weld options.
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Maxon ships Cinema 4D S22
First subscriber-only update to Cinema 4D overhauls the UV unwrapping tools and rolls out Maxon's new viewport architecture.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
Uppercut unveils its U-Render 2020 product roadmap
Cinema 4D real-time render engine to get support for particle rendering and SSS - and a new Maya edition.
Saturday, April 18th, 2020
Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 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
Uppercut releases U-Render 2019.11 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D now out of early access - and now supports volumetrics.
Friday, November 8th, 2019
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21
Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Adobe ships Substance Designer 2019.2
Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps.
Friday, August 30th, 2019
Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Pixar releases Opensubdiv 3.4
Open-source subdivision library used in many DCC tools now supports same feature set for Loop and Catmull-Clark subdivision.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Uppercut releases U-Render 2019.06 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' physically based renderer gets support for 360° spherical and overscan rendering.
Friday, June 21st, 2019