Next Limit unveils Maxwell Render 3.1
VFX-friendly release to add support for OpenVDB, Mari's UDIM textures, improved skin rendering system.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
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Videos: Pixologic unveils ZBrush 4R7
Updated: new high-speed demo shows the ZModeler poly modelling toolset and the KeyShot bridge.
Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
Pixar ships RenderMan 19
Featuring the new RIS raytracing architecture and costing just $495. Free version now due early 2015.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Cool tech demo: the Project Proteus fluid simulator
Check out this physically based, 100% parallelised 'next-gen' fluid simulator, soon available in beta.
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6
Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Quixel releases Quixel Suite
Updated: new versions of NDO and DDO now officially out of beta. New batch options and 16K support too.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
The Foundry details new features of Nuke 9, NukeX 9
New native flipbook panel replaces FrameCycler, plus big speed boosts, particularly to EXR workflow.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
The Foundry to launch free edition of Nuke Studio
Non-watermarked, non-commercial version of the software to replace Nuke PLE early in the new year.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Navié releases Effex 2.5 for Cinema 4D
Big update to multiphysics system adds surface tension, Bullet dynamics, lots of other cool tools.
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
Corona Renderer team reveals price, release date
And its 'Fair SaaS' pricing for the much-anticipated 3ds Max renderer sounds a lot like a dig at Adobe.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Try new Maya-style menus in Blender 2.72
Now officially released: update adds optional Hotbox-style pie menus, improved texture-painting system.
Monday, October 6th, 2014
Michael Gibson releases MoI 3
Long-awaited update to intuitive NURBS modeller adds lots of nice new tools, plus multi-touch support.
Monday, September 22nd, 2014