Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 3 R2
Updated: Free R2 update adds new edge wear presets, Quixel-like Dynamask system to the powerful collection of Mari tools.
Friday, January 22nd, 2016
PBR
FrostSoft ships PixelBerg 1.8 for Cinema 4D
Promising real-time PBR render engine now supports C4D's standard renderer for final-quality images.
Friday, January 15th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.7
Texture painting software gets updated brush engine, plus new Dota 2, car paint and velvet shaders.
Friday, December 18th, 2015
Quixel ships Quixel Suite 2.0
Updated, now shipping: Games texturing toolkit gets powerful 3D painting and map baking options. See the new features in action here.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
NewTek announces new LightWave pricing
Cost of new licences up, upgrades from the current version down. Also: new volumetric and PBR engine due in LightWave 2016.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Get 20 free physically based RenderMan material presets
Updated: get LollipopShaders' free multi-purpose presets for RenderMan's PxrDisney material.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Get the assets from Epic's Infiltrator UE4 demo for free
Download all of the assets from the firm's 2013 GDC demo for use in your own Unreal Engine projects.
Friday, September 18th, 2015
Substance Painter 1.5 and Substance Designer 5.2 ship
Both Allegorithmic texturing tools get export presets for V-Ray, Arnold, Redshift and Corona; new viewport display options.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Nuke
Edit V-Ray lights, materials and render properties directly inside Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
See the proposed dev schedule for Blender 2.8
Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015
Pilgway releases 3D-Coat 4.5
Updated: Voxel sculpting package gets new PBR materials system, Photoshop-compatible layer groups, new UV options.
Friday, May 29th, 2015
The Foundry reveals entire feature set of Modo 901
Videos: see the key features of this major update, including the new Advanced Viewport and FX tools.
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 3
Inexpensive texture map creation tool gets new baking options, image filters, support for 32-bit workflow.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015