Side Effects ships Houdini 15 and Houdini Engine 2.0
Wide-ranging update adds new modelling, animation, simulation tools; native support for RenderMan RIS shaders.
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
RenderMan
Fabric Software ships Fabric Engine 2
Create complex CG tools without coding with Fabric's long-awaited new visual programming system.
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Google relaunches Zync render service in beta
VFX-friendly online service now available on Google Cloud Platform. Sign up to get $800 in free credits.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Massive Software announces Massive 8.0
Update will let users simulate 20,000 AI-driven crowd characters in real time. New 3ds Max plugin coming too.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Download PRMan for Blender
Free alpha plugin headed up by Pixar's Brian Savery lets Blender users render using RenderMan 20.
Friday, July 10th, 2015
Pixar ships RenderMan 20
Latest update adds Denoise option for raytraced renders, new Visualizer view for debugging complex scenes.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Artixels ships Escher 1.2
Relight even images rendered with DoF or motion blur with this nifty set of 'deep relighting' tools for Nuke.
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 4
Maya crowd-simulation system gets new options for blendshape animation, auto IK - and support for very big sims indeed.
Monday, May 25th, 2015
The Foundry releases Katana 2
Heavyweight lighting & look dev tool gets new public API, support for Lua scripting, improved performance.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3
Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 4.0
Maya crowd system gets neat new animation and simulation editing tools. Cool new demo reel, too.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Pixar makes RenderMan free for non-commercial use
Use for tools development is fine too. Ships with Maya and Katana plugins; Houdini and C4D to come.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 3.6
Control armies via natural language with the crowd simulation tool's new human language logic system.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015