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
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Autodesk ships Maya 2018.5 and Maya LT 2018.5
Online changelog suggests that they're both just bugfixes on the way to Maya and Maya LT 2019.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2019
Mocha Pro now has 360° tracking tool Mocha VR; Continuum gets 2D particle system particleIllusion.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Nvidia announces $900 Quadro RTX 4000 GPU
Latest card in Nvidia's new range of 'ray tracing ready' GPUs has similar price to the old Quadro P4000.
Wednesday, November 14th, 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
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 2
Update adds node-based material editor, new skin and hair shaders, automated conversion of C4D and V-Ray materials.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya
Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast
See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Adobe releases After Effects CC 16.0
Update adds depth passes for native 3D layers, new expressions engine, new Lumetri Color controls.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Adobe releases Character Animator CC 2.0
New update adds AI-driven tool for transferring the art style of any source image to your animation.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Ephere announces Ornatrix for Cinema 4D
Popular 3ds Max hair, fur and feathers tool coming to Cinema 4D. Sign up to join the beta program.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2018 public release
Subscriber update to the Cinema 4D particle simulation tool promises 16x faster particle collisions and 2.5x faster fluid sims.
Friday, October 12th, 2018