Foundry ships Mari 4.5
Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
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NewTek ships LightWave 2019
Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Wings 3D developers release Wings 3D 2.2
Veteran open-source subdivision modelling tool gets support for PBR materials, new Booleans system.
Monday, December 3rd, 2018
Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding
New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 2
Update adds node-based material editor, new skin and hair shaders, automated conversion of C4D and V-Ray materials.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Master Vehicle Texturing in Substance Painter
Discover how to texture this gorgeously grimy hot rod in James Schauf's new Gnomon tutorial.
Saturday, November 3rd, 2018
Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials
Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers
See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Sneak peek: 3Delight integration in Katana 3.0
Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
NewTek ships LightWave 2018
Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.
Monday, January 1st, 2018
Gnomon releases Texturing and Shading for Production
Follow ILM artist Jesse Flores's eight-hour video tutorial in Maya, Mari, V-Ray and Substance Painter.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Massive Software unveils Massive Prime 9.0
Heavyweight crowd simulator to get new 'universal plugin' to allow compatibility to 'all major' 3D apps.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.1
Landscape-generation tool gets better cloud generation, faster previews, and 32-bit EXR output.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017