Laubwerk makes procedural plant kits available for Maya
1.0.20 update makes the render ready tree models compatible with Maya as well as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
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Esri ships CityEngine 2016.0
Powerful procedural city modelling software gets new Alembic exporter for use with visual effects pipelines.
Monday, June 27th, 2016
See BodyPaint 3D's new GPU-based painting engine
The upcoming OpenGL engine in Cinema 4D's painting toolset should improve interactivity when texturing large assets.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Next Limit releases RealFlow | Cinema 4D
Now shipping: New $795 edition of the fluid simulator is 'fully integrated' inside C4D, though it lacks some advanced tools.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Download 500 free HDRIs from HDRI Skies
Updated: Neat set of free HDR sky images covers a range of times of day and weather. Also now includes a free 15K HDR.
Friday, June 17th, 2016
Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap 2.0 for Maya
Inexpensive UV unwrapping tool gets new selection, seam-handling and resymmetry options, better UDIM support.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
The Foundry releases Modo 10.1
Now shipping: Latest Modo 10 Series update adds cool procedural modelling system. Plays nicely with MeshFusion, too.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Go Ghost unveils first 'sub pixel sample compositor'
Evotis will take compositing way beyond deep images, claims intriguing new tool's developer.
Monday, June 13th, 2016
Autodesk ships Stingray 1.3
Game engine gets new fur, cloth and clear coat shaders, plus support for texture streaming and Nvidia's APEX real-time cloth simulation system.
Thursday, June 9th, 2016
AXYZ design ships Anima 2
Major update rewrites 3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool 'from scratch'; adds new WYSIWG editor and greater range of controls.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Blackmagic Design ships Fusion 8.1 and 8.1 Studio
Update makes Fusion Connect for Avid plugin available to users of the free edition of Fusion, and on OS X.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Autodesk unveils new M&E Industry Collection
Cheaper than the Entertainment Creation Suites it replaces on 1 August, though it omits Softimage.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016