Autodesk ships RV 2022
VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
rental-only
Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 5 for 3ds Max and Maya
Updated: 3ds Max edition available. Check out the new features in the shattering and dynamics plugin.
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Maxon ends perpetual licences of Red Giant products
New versions of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite available only via subscriptions.
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Maxon releases public beta of Redshift RT
New hybrid rasterisation/ray tracing mode provides a high-quality real-time preview of Redshift scenes.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Redshift goes subscription-only
Perpetual licences of the GPU renderer discontinued in favour of subscription plans. See the prices for individuals and teams here.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0
Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
Trimble ships SketchUp 2021.0.1
Check out all the new features in the latest version of Trimble's architectural modeling software.
Monday, January 18th, 2021
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 10.0
3D clothing design tool gets new wrinkle-sculpting brush and much more customisable 3D avatars. Now rental-only.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Sneak peek: V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Updated: early registration now available for the beta of the next major version of the C4D renderer.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Marvelous Designer goes subscription-only
Sales of perpetual licences of the 3D clothing design tool to end with Marvelous Designer 10 this fall.
Monday, July 13th, 2020
e-on software ships Vue R4 and PlantFactory R4
Vue gets automated real-world terrain data import; PlantFactory gets 3ds Max and Maya plugins.
Friday, December 13th, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R3 and PlantFactory R3
Vue gets new orthographic camera and support for V-Ray Next; both apps get better Substance support.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R2 and PlantFactory R2
Vue gets updates to EcoSystems, the cloud tools and the Path Tracer; PlantFactory gets interactive path traced previews.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019