PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4 for Maya
Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
Monday, October 29th, 2018
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FXhome ships Imerge Pro
'World's first RAW image compositor' edits still images non-destructively, and provides some neat keying and grading tools.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya
Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4
Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1
Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 7.3
Sub-$100 Mac-only 3D software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, new dark UI theme.
Friday, October 19th, 2018
thinkingParticles 6.7 ships
Big update to the 3ds Max particle plugin's fluid simulation tools adds new options for generating waves, water levels and diffusion effects.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.0
Designer-friendly 3D software gets support for layered decals, FBX and STL import, interactive web export for design reviews and AR.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
Photoshop CC 20.0 ships; Photoshop for iPad due in 2019
Desktop edition gets long-awaited workflow improvements; 'real' Photoshop due on iOS next year.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
Adobe releases After Effects CC 16.0
Update adds depth passes for native 3D layers, new expressions engine, new Lumetri Color controls.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Adobe releases Character Animator CC 2.0
New update adds AI-driven tool for transferring the art style of any source image to your animation.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Ephere announces Ornatrix for Cinema 4D
Popular 3ds Max hair, fur and feathers tool coming to Cinema 4D. Sign up to join the beta program.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2018 public release
Subscriber update to the Cinema 4D particle simulation tool promises 16x faster particle collisions and 2.5x faster fluid sims.
Friday, October 12th, 2018