Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.0 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets new rigid body solver and texture UVW system. 3ds Max edition now integrated with thinkingParticles.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
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Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.8 for Maya
Free GPU renderer gets new 'full spectrum rendering' mode for hybrid rasterised/ray traced viewport previews.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2020
Updated: Sapphire 2020 ships. Release adds OpenColorIO support, new lens whacking effect.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.4
Landscape-generation software's new path tracing render mode is now officially production-ready.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3
Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Reallusion ships Headshot 1.0
AI-driven plugin for Character Creator generates 3D models of human heads from single source photos, with PBR texture maps.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.7 and Character Creator 3.2
Real-time 3D character tools get new Digital Human Shader for more realistic skin, eyes and hair.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Abvent ships Artlantis 2020
Architectural renderer gets new image denoiser, light portal system, more types of 3D grass, and RAL colour presets to mimic real paints.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020.2
Compositing and finishing software gets new machine-learning-based tools to identify and isolate human heads and bodies from footage.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Boris FX ships Silhouette 2020
Sizeable update to the rotoscoping and paint software adds features across the board. Mocha planar tracker now thrown in for free.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2020
Major free update to the sculpting app adds new history-aware brushes, option to paint or sculpt on the UV unwrap of a model.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free
Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019