Unreal Engine 4.7 ships
Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
rendering
Act-3D releases Lumion 5.3
Real-time visualisation tool can now create normal maps automatically and render 'poster-res' images.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Download organic art software Substance for free
Get Stephane Marty's intuitive 3D fractal and organic art tool and the Emulsion physically based renderer.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R7
Eagerly awaited free update brings intuitive new poly modelling and instancing tools to the sculpting app. New 64-bit edition, too.
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
Luxion launches KeyShot Enterprise Edition
Includes a floating licence of the renderer, plus the animation, network render and VR modules.
Monday, January 12th, 2015
Gnomon releases AO in Maya & mental ray
Master mental ray with Disney veteran Frederic Durand's complete guide to using ambient occlusion.
Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
Gnomon ships Introduction to Maya Fluid Effects 2 and 3
FX TD Wayne Hollingsworth's videos provide a complete guide to creating production-ready simulations.
Thursday, December 18th, 2014
Gnomon releases Making Frankenstein's Monster
Recreate the creature in Mudbox and Maya with Treyarch character artist Peter Zoppi's full five-hour guide.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Alexandra Institute releases Elementacular 1.2
Turn any model into an relightable cloud and render it as a 32-bit HDR with this neat Maya plugin.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Atomic Fiction to launch cloud rendering service
VFX firm's Conductor platform will support users' own custom scripts, plugins and software.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Luxion ships KeyShot 5.1
Renderer gets new procedural materials, better instancing tools; imports animation in C4D format.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
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