Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 4.1
Games texturing tool gets new baking options and ability to group nodes. Eight new video tutorials, too.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
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Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 1.3
Maya fur plugin adds procedural feather geometry, new grooming tools, support for OpenSubdiv.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Basefount releases Miarmy 2.7
Maya crowd simulator adds support for compound bone systems, more advanced actor interactions.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Amberlight lets you 'paint' with particle fields
New procedural art tool from the creator of Flame Painter generates arresting swirls, glows and light trails.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
Next Limit announces new tools in Maxwell Render 3
Discover a new feature a day every day this week on the mini-site for the physically based renderer.
Monday, November 18th, 2013
Get Miguel Angel Santiago's free noise library for Mari
DT3D Mari Procedural Library adds nine new procedural types to the app, with scope to author new ones.
Monday, October 28th, 2013
nEyeMaker for Maya creates ultra-customisable eyeballs
Lighting artist Luca Fiorentini's free, fully procedural eye features appearance controls galore. Neat.
Monday, October 28th, 2013
QuadSpinner releases Helios SkyBuilder for Vue
Dax Pandhi's ambitious Vue add-on enables users to create ultra-detailed skies for visual effects work.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Video: Crytek's tasty new CryEngine tech demo
Engine update shows off physically based skin shading, automated LODs, procedural GPGPU weather.
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Luxion unveils KeyShot 4.1
Intuitive standalone renderer to get caustics, procedural materials and a rather cool-looking new toon shader.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
Spiral Graphics releases Genetica 4.0
Texture-editing package gets new, more intuitive workflow, 3D texture synthesis, native scripting language.
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
See Fabric Engine's Horde do real-time crowd sims
New videos show the work-in-progress previz and VFX tool in use within both Maya and Softimage.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 3.5
Free update to the texturing tool adds live link to Photoshop, new graph profiler, better 3D preview.
Friday, March 29th, 2013