Foundry ships Modo 14.0
First Modo 14 Series release adds Ghost and X-ray display modes, plus the option to draw annotations on the viewport in asset reviews.
Friday, March 20th, 2020
rendering
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Act-3D releases Lumion 10.3
Real-time visualisation software gets an improved render preview, support for displacement maps, new live link plugin for AutoCAD.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.1
Big update gives the visualisation tool new rendering features, better 3D characters and plants - and an aggressive new price.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
Master the art of creating a photorealistic interior scene
Create interiors for VFX work with Digital Domain lighting lead Adrien Vallecilla's new Gnomon tutorial.
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for SketchUp Update 2
Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Download the Maya 2019/2020 Bonus Tools
Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya modelling, layout and rigging add-ons, including 11 new tools.
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant
Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020
Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
iClone Unreal Live Link now free to indie users
Reallusion makes plugin originally priced at $1,490 free to artists earning less than $100,000/year.
Monday, January 20th, 2020