Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.17
Update to free game engine improves workflow in the Asset Browser and Entity Outliner, particularly if working with slices.
Thursday, December 20th, 2018
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Z Tools for Houdini live links Houdini and ZBrush
Handy add-on transfers geometry and paint changes between the two apps without manual export.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Foundry ships Nuke 11.3, NukeX 11.3, Nuke Studio 11.3
Nuke gets new Live Groups options and eGPU support; new Smart Vector tools and faster particle simulation in NukeX.
Friday, December 14th, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.5 for Maya
Skin and muscle simulation plugin gets new solvers for faster, more controllable secondary dynamics.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.3
Update adds interactive rendering in the ActiveShade viewport, plus better OSL and Alembic support.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender
Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.3
Material authoring software gets PBR Render node, faster texture baking on Nvidia's new RTX GPUs.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2
Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Nvidia open-sources PhysX, unveils PhysX SDK 4.0
Real-time physics system now available under a 3-clause BSD licence on PCs and mobile devices.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
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
Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Abvent ships Artlantis 2019
Architectural rendering software gets new site insertion tool and exposure slider. Old Render and Studio editions unified into one.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Download free Blender texture scattering plugin SCATTr
Handy add-on distributes textures across a surface. Uses range from PBR materials to motion graphics.
Monday, November 26th, 2018