See an R&D preview of V-Ray RT for MotionBuilder
See real-time path tracing in the MotionBuilder viewport on the set of Kevin Margo's short, Grounded.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
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Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap for Maya
Formerly 3ds Max-only real-time UV mapping toolset now available to Maya users, too. It costs under $20.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 1.5
Updated: Renderer gets Alembic support and real-time animation scrubbing with motion blur. Neat.
Friday, March 21st, 2014
Lightmap ships LightWave plugin for HDR Light Studio
LightWave3D Live Connection lets users create HDRIs in real time, and see the results in LightWave's VPR.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
PS3 versus PS4 graphics: the new Tomb Raider trailer
Teaser for Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition details the effects of those drip maps, SSS and hair physics.
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
See Unreal Engine 4 run on Nvidia's new Tegra K1
New 192-core mobile GPU beats last-gen consoles, brings high-end PC graphics to tablets, claims Nvidia.
Monday, January 6th, 2014
3rd Powers ships five new LightWave plugins
Cage Deformer, Lattice Deformer, Meta Mesh, Boolean Tool and Heat Shrink Plus manipulate complex geometry in real time.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Free tool of the day: Michał Gamrat's mgNodes for Maya
Control deformations and particles with this CUDA-based tool to scatter and manipulate points on a mesh.
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
Videos: Nvidia's multi-physics, volumetrics and GI tools
Check out impressive demos of the developer's new FLEX, Flame Works and GI Works real-time technologies.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Act-3D unveils Lumion 4.0
Real-time architectural rendering tool to get animated vegetation, better water, physical camera effects.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 1.5
Updated: innovative hybrid 2D/3D tool gets lots of new render features, Python and Alembic 1.5 support.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Autodesk posts Leap Motion plugin for MotionBuilder
Free R&D plugin lets users of the Kinect-like device puppeteer characters live inside MotionBuilder.
Thursday, September 26th, 2013
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4
Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.
Sunday, September 15th, 2013