Sketchfab's models of the month: February 2019
See the month's best real-time 3D models, including some - quite literally - eye-popping character art.
Friday, March 1st, 2019
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Sneak peek: real-time ray tracing in Notch Builder
See the real-time motion graphics tool's interesting new path tracing system. Runs on any current GPU.
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
Epic Games acquires facial capture specialist 3Lateral
Buyout of Epic's tech partner from its amazing GDC demos to boost work on digital humans in UE4.
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
RayFire Studios releases RayFire 1.83 for 3ds Max
3ds Max demolition plugin's neat new interactive workflow removes the need to pre-shatter meshes.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
CL3VER unveils CL3VER Cloud
New real-time visualisation platform based on Nvidia's RTX tech renders V-Ray scenes and streams the result to standard web browsers.
Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Uppercut launches U-Render in early access
Hotly tipped real-time Cinema 4D PBR render engine gets first paid release. Version 1.0 due next year.
Monday, December 17th, 2018
Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2
Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2018
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from new PUBG vehicles to a partially naked postperson.
Saturday, December 1st, 2018
Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Alexey Vanzhula makes Flux available for free
Get the neat real-time Boolean and retopology toolset for Houdini free. Works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal
New app converts scenes created in other editions of V-Ray for use in UE4, also baking out V-Ray lights.
Friday, November 9th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21
Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Act-3D releases Lumion 9.0
Real-time visualisation tool gets new toolsets for sky lighting, rain, grass and fur in the Pro edition; better workflow in the base edition.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018