Esri ships CityEngine 2014.0
Powerful procedural city-generation tool gets new plugins integrating it with Maya and Unity.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
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RandomControl ships Arion for 3ds Max 2.70
Big update to unbiased renderer boosts speed, ups maximum render size, adds new relighting workflow.
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
Luxion ships KeyShot 5
Intuitive renderer with growing following among concept artists adds instancing, Sun & Sky system.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Crytek releases CryEngine on Steam for $9.90/month
Cutting-edge game engine now available to any dev for under a tenner - and no cut of the profits.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Pixar to make RenderMan free for non-commercial use
Unrestricted free version due this summer. Price of commercial version cut to just $495, effective now.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Unity 4.5 ships
Mainly bugfixes this time, but there are new 2D physics tools, plus stereo support for DirectX 11 games.
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
cebas ships moskitoRender for 3ds Max
Much-anticipated GPU renderer offers unusual materials-agnostic workflow, competitive €295 price.
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
Radius Effector 2 simplifies motion graphics in Max
Control thousands of objects with minimal keyframing in Eloi Andaluz's powerful thinkingParticles toolset.
Monday, May 26th, 2014
Epic Games unveils Unreal Engine 4.2
Updated: sizeable new update to engine to add new IK solver and camera animation system.
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
Jasper Brekelmans unveils Brekel Pro Hands
Motion-capture hand and finger movements in real-time with an $80 Leap Motion sensor.
Friday, May 16th, 2014
Craft Animations releases Craft CameraFx
New MotionBuilder plugin lets users pilot realistic virtual camera moves with a mouse or Xbox controller.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 2.2 for 3ds Max
Fluid simulation system gets internal self-illumination, simulation morphing controls, PRT and OpenVDB support.
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
Chaos Group to talk 'V-Ray on 100k cores' at EUE2014
Strong line-up for popular non-profit CG event also includes talks by Autodesk, Platige Image, Neoscape.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014