SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.
Monday, August 6th, 2018
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Iray for 3ds Max 1.8 and Iray for Maya 2.1 both ship
Plugin editions of the GPU-based renderer add a bloom filter and better AI denoising in Max; UDIM support in Maya.
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.2
3D painting tool adds subsurface scattering, viewport gizmos for fill layers, Alembic and glTF import.
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
Flowbox ships Flowbox 1.7, integrates Mocha
Smart roto tool gets new edition with the Academy Award-winning planar tracker integrated into it.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.15
Free game engine gets readymade components for generating roads and rivers, new pose blending options in the animation editor.
Monday, July 30th, 2018
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11.4
Low-cost digital painting tool gets real-time preview for clone sources, new reverse image search feature.
Friday, July 27th, 2018
Curó generates and tracks budgets for VFX projects
Avatar VFX producer Joyce Cox's new online platform provides a smarter way to cost out VFX shows.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.2
Terrain rendering times cut by up to 4x, plus new option to use a render as a projected texture on export.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.5 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into WebGL apps relaxes restrictions on physical materials; adds anisotropic texture filtering.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.20
UE4-based visualisation platform gets iterative import workflow, new SketchUp exporter, MDL support.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20
Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.
Friday, July 20th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.2
Material authoring tool gets neat new 'Shape Splatter' system, plus initial release of new Python API.
Friday, July 20th, 2018