The Lytro Cinema system: the next revolution in VFX?
Could new high-end light field movie cameras eliminate greenscreen work? CG Channel investigates.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
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Kinematic Lab releases PhysX Painter for 3ds Max
Cool new plugin lets you populate scenes by painting in objects and watching them settle under gravity.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 5.0, RailClone 2.6
3ds Max scattering and modelling plugins get 'up to 100%' speed boost on V-Ray renders, new UI to manage large scenes.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
Glare Techologies ships Indigo Renderer 4.0 in beta
Long-awaited update adds support for pure GPU rendering. Supports multiple AMD, Nvidia or Intel GPUs.
Monday, April 11th, 2016
Tetraface releases Metasequoia 4.5 for OS X
Veteran Japanese 3D modelling app comes to Macs for the first time - and even gets RenderMan support.
Friday, April 8th, 2016
Otoy reveals its roadmap to OctaneRender 4.0
Support for CPU rendering, skinned characters and Brigade path tracing - plus OctaneImager, an entire new compositing app.
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
The Foundry ships Modo 10.0v1
Videos: see all the new features in action, from tools for games artists to new UV and UDIM workflows.
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Act-3D releases Lumion 6.3
Updated: Real-time visualisation software gets improved GI, AO, depth of field - and now VR support.
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
Blackmagic Design ships Fusion 8, Fusion 8 Studio
Now officially shipping: formerly Windows-only compositor now available on Mac. Linux version due later this year.
Friday, April 1st, 2016
F12 ships The Grove Release 3
Promising new tree-generation tool gets intelligent polygon reduction, new advanced growth parameters.
Thursday, March 31st, 2016
See screenshots of what may be 3ds Max 2017
Posted on Autodesk's AREA forum, but not confirmed officially yet. Some information about new features too.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
NewTek previews LightWave 2016
Updated: See the new scene editor and a side-by-side performance comparison with LightWave 2015.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
innoBright halves price of Altus 1.3
Updated: Tool for denoising images generated in renderers like Arnold and V-Ray now starts at $20/month.
Monday, March 28th, 2016