Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
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Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2019.1
Big update to the texture painting app adds neat dynamic strokes system, viewport displacement.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
Allegorithmic releases Substance Alchemist 0.6
Latest beta of the next-gen material creation tool adds option to create collections of material variations.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22
Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020
Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
Sneak peek: Video Copilot's new Nebula 3D plugin
Video: see footage created with the firm's cool-looking new 3D volumetrics tool for After Effects.
Friday, April 12th, 2019
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.6 for Maya
Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat anatomy transfer function ports rigs from one character to another.
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender for Blender 2.0 in open beta
Free GPU renderer gets support for AI denoising, adaptive sampling, hair rendering. New versions for 3ds Max & Maya, too.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.07
Real-time rendering toolkit gets new Python callbacks to help with writing live link plugins, better stability when baking textures.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
IKinema releases Orion 2.0
Low-cost full-body mocap system based around HTC Vive hardware gets new 'system health tracker' to monitor data quality automatically.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support
Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.2
3D app for graphic designers gets support for cloud rendering and Substance materials, but the old V-Ray render engine has gone.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019