Marmoset's GDC reel hints at new features in Toolbag 3
Video: Beautiful new reel shows particle effects and character animation rendered using the real-time viewer.
Friday, March 18th, 2016
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Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2
3D painting tool gets Iray renderer integrated inside, new Clone and Smudge tools, new Linux edition.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
Autodesk unveils Maya LT 2016 Extension 3
Videos: See the new Quick Rig tool, new blendshape handling system, improved symmetrical modelling and UV editing.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
Basefount Technology unveils Miarmy 4.5
Maya crowd simulation tool to get new jump system for actors, plus tech developed for use on Ant-Man.
Monday, March 14th, 2016
Faceware unveils new markerless mocap solutions
Updates due to firm's Analyzer and Retargeter facial mocap software, along with a new free PLE edition.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
See more details of the new features in Modo 10.0v1
Update will improve look dev and asset export to UE4 and Unity 5, streamline baking, enhance vertex normal editing.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
The Foundry announces Modo 10 Series
Modo 10.0v1 due out in Q2, and 'opens new doors' for games and VR. Modo 10.1 and 10.2 to follow.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
Pixar unveils RenderMan 21
'Game-changing' update to renderer will feature GPU-accelerated Denoise, OSL support, new materials and lighting workflows.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Render Legion previews Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max
Next version of renderer to add adaptive image sampling, new denoising system. Cinema 4D version due this year.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Maxon working on new core architecture for Cinema 4D
Already partly rolled out in C4D R16 and R17, but the full switchover will take 'several more releases'.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Capturing Reality releases RealityCapture
Updated, now shipping: Neat new 3D capture tool generates clean, ultra-detailed meshes from source images or scan data.
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
Download the first demo of Redshift for 3ds Max
3ds Max users get their first chance to try the increasingly popular GPU based biased production renderer.
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
AMD unveils Radeon R9 Fury, Fury X and Nano GPUs
Updated: Raw compute power and next-gen HBM memory ready new cards for 4K gaming. Price of Nano now cut to $499.
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016