Hollywood Illusion releases Magic Nodes 2 for After Effects
Neat add-on that brings node-based compositing to After Effects gets support for 3D layers, cameras, node groups and multi-graphs.
Friday, December 15th, 2023
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Ephere releases Ornatrix 8 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the hair and fur plugin, including a point-and-click groom-creation system, and the option to 'box' operators.
Friday, December 15th, 2023
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.6
Check out the new AI features in the GPU-based ray tracing renderer, including automatic atmosphere and texture generation.
Friday, December 15th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.1
Check out the new features in the material authoring software, including AxF export, and better workflow when using Frames.
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.22
Update boosts performance in real-time render engine Redshift RT, including support for async shader compilation and DLSS upscaling.
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2024.2
3D animation and motion graphics tool gets new options for rigid body and Pyro simulations, new Key Reducer for mocap data.
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp Update 2
Check out the latest features in the renderer, including major updates to object scattering and support for Enmesh in V-Ray GPU.
Monday, December 11th, 2023
Chaos Czech releases Corona 11 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including updates to Chaos Scatter, and support for Open Image Denoise 2.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
Left Angle releases Autograph 2023.11
'Biggest release yet' of the next-gen tool for motion design and VFX adds new options for working with vector shapes, text and audio.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio live link for Unreal Engine
New plugin lets visualization artists use lighting design tool HDR Light Studio for more precise control over models being rendered in UE5.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Get Epic Games' free Pose Driver Connect for Maya and UE5
Handy free tool transfers secondary animation set-ups authored in Maya to MetaHumans and other characters in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Reallusion ships iClone 8.4 and Character Creator 4.4
Major update to iClone adds a complete crowd simulation system to the real-time animation software. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.5
Update overhauls the VR sculpting software's surfacing toolset, and adds initial support for PBR materials and image-based lighting.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023