Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.
Friday, December 11th, 2020
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Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.91
Open-source 3D app gets another major update. Read our five-minute run-down of all the key changes.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Sneak peek: the Deform Stack in Otoy's Sculptron
Free GPU-based sculpting tool's new modifier stack will deform high-res meshes in near-real time.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
Effective TDs ships Storm 0.5
Big update to the standalone fluid simulation tool adds new smoke solver, option to upres sims, and 'complete procedural VDB toolkit'.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Otoy ships Sculptron Alpha 2
Latest free build of Otoy's new tool for sculpting animation caches speeds up playback 'about 10x' and adds a readymade toon material.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5
Real-time gaseous fluid simulator gets neat new GPU particle system for finer, wispier smoke effects.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.83 LTS
The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.4 for Blender
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets experimental new 'next gen' mode with support for out-of-core geometry.
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
EmberGen is now in beta
JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.
Monday, May 4th, 2020
NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500
Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0
LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020