World Machine Software ships World Machine 'Mt Rainier'
Big update to the terrain generator introduces new UI, history system, raises build speed by up to 60%.
Thursday, January 28th, 2021
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Download VR modelling tool Gravity Sketch for free
Powerful virtual reality design tool now free to individual artists, including OBJ, FBX, IGES export.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Tilt Brush goes open source
Google stops development of its virtual reality 3D painting and concept art app, but users can now compile it free from source code.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Check out new Maya hair plugin Draw Groom Guides
Neat tool snaps hair guides to a target mesh, then lets you reshape the entire hairstyle interactively.
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Sneak peek: Chaos Group's R&D work on V-Ray's VRayMtl
Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.
Wednesday, January 20th, 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
Filter Forge 10.0 ships
Tool for authoring Photoshop filters and converting images into PBR texture maps gets new projects system, and new lower pricing.
Friday, January 15th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 17.6
Compositing software's Content Aware-Fill object removal system now compensates automatically for lighting changes across a shot.
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
Agisoft ships Metashape 1.7
Check out the new features in the photogrammetry tool, including faster depth map generation and integration with laser scan data.
Friday, January 8th, 2021
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.5
Landscape-generation software gets OpenColorIO support, plus better support for PBR workflows.
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
AXYZ design ships anima 4.1
3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser
Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020