Blender 2.74 ships
Check out the Viewport 2.0-style viewport AO and depth of field; better hair dynamics and planar tracking.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
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Nvidia launches Iray 2015
GPU-based renderer gets support for instancing, AxF material format. New Maya plugin and server edition also in development.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Nvidia unveils Quadro M6000
Jason Lewis runs through the specs of Nvidia's new top-of-the-range pro GPU, and reveals some early benchmark results.
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
Insydium releases X-Particles 3
Updated, now shipping: Cinema 4D particle tool gets new FLIP fluid solver, particle-based dynamics.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
Jasper Brekelmans releases Brekel Pro Face 2
Now shipping: Indie facial-capture software now lets Kinect 2 users record up to six actors in real time.
Monday, March 16th, 2015
BUF to release complete in-house set of VFX tools
Bcreative and Bpipeline product suites cover the studio's full range of tools, from 3D and compositing to asset management.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 5
Now shipping. Texturing app gets new procedural tools, better baking. Income cap relaxed on Indie licence.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Video: Geomerics' new Enlighten 3 lighting system
See the tech behind Unity 5's new real-time global illumination in action in this neat new demo video.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Marmoset unveils Marmoset Viewer for Toolbag 2
New WebGL exporter will let artists share 3D models in a web browser, with physically based shading.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Our new Source 2 engine will be free, says Valve
Successor to the engine used on Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 will be 'free to content developers'.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Unity Technologies releases Unity 5
Now shipping: leading game engine gets real-time GI, physically based shading, new audio-editing tools.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
Autodesk unveils Stingray game engine
New product based on the core technology from the Bitsquid engine to go on show at GDC 2015.
Monday, March 2nd, 2015
Autodesk announces Maya LT 2016
Indie-game-focused version of Maya to get new brush-based sculpting and UV workflows, PBR shading.
Monday, March 2nd, 2015