Luxion ships KeyShot 5.1
Renderer gets new procedural materials, better instancing tools; imports animation in C4D format.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
rendering
Gnomon ships full guide to GI in Maya and mental ray
Master key techniques with Frederic Durand's Global Illumination and Caustics in Maya & mental ray.
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
e-on ships LumenRT Studio 2015 and GeoDesign 2015
Real-time visualisation tools get new 'DIVE' core engine, bringing in tech from Vue and PlantFactory.
Friday, October 31st, 2014
Marmoset releases Toolbag 2.06
Nice update to render toolkit adds area lights, curves-based colour grading, new set of post effects.
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6
Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Gnomon releases Maya Viewport 2.0 and Shader FX
Eric Keller's five-hour DVD provides a complete guide to Maya 2015's powerful real-time previews.
Friday, October 10th, 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
The Foundry launches Colorway
Updated: New tool iterates colour, lighting and materials in 3D renders. Now for C4D as well as Modo.
Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
Corona Renderer dev team post first Cinema 4D build
Free alpha of the promising renderer includes instancing, basic support for native C4D materials and lights.
Monday, September 8th, 2014
Maxon releases Cinema 4D R16
Now shipping: latest update adds camera tracker, layered reflections and PolyPen modelling/retopo tool.
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana
New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Epic Games previews Unreal Engine 4.3
Update to game engine adds subtle GI, AO and shadow translucency effects, improved collision geometry.
Thursday, July 10th, 2014
CoreCG halves price of MentalCore 1.7 for Maya
Cost of the new version of the mental ray rendering toolkit cut to $99 for a node-locked licence.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014