Katana 3.0 users will get 3Delight renderer free
Powerful RenderMan-compliant renderer will be available as free interactive rendering plugin when Katana 3.0 ships.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
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Lucasfilm and ILM open-source MaterialX
New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.03
New beta of real-time rendering toolkit restores the macOS build, adds support for Python scripting.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Act-3D releases Lumion 7.5
Free update to the real-time visualisation tool adds 52 new stock interior materials, better support for non-square textures.
Monday, July 10th, 2017
Sketchfab's models of the month: June 2017
See the month's best real-time 3D models, including this detailed, downloadable medieval character.
Friday, June 30th, 2017
AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya
Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender
Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Eye candy: Unity's weird new photorealistic real-time demo
Bizarre but beautiful interactive demo puts Unity's upcoming HD render loop through its paces.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017
Reallusion ships iClone 7
Now shipping: Big update to 3D character animation software adds new morph animation toolset, PBR viewport, HDRI baking, real-time GI.
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017
Khronos Group adds PBR materials to glTF 2.0
Open format for exchanging 3D assets between game engines or web apps now supports physically based rendering.
Saturday, June 17th, 2017
Sneak peek: Blender 2.8's new Grease Pencil features
Open-source 2D animation toolset gets its own dedicated workspace, new work modes and fill options.
Wednesday, June 14th, 2017
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R8
Updated: Long-awaited update to the sculpting tool adds real-time Booleans, vector displacement meshes, eight new deformers.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017
iPi Soft releases iPi Mocap Studio 3.6
Latest updates to markerless mocap tool permit real-time tracking via Kinect game sensors.
Monday, June 12th, 2017