Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.16
Update improves CPU rendering performance, adds render backplate system in 3ds Max, deformation motion blur in Blender.
Saturday, June 17th, 2023
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Luiz Elias ships Mush 3D 2.0
Neat tool for sculpting and deforming animation caches from other DCC apps gets new FBX pipeline for use with game engines.
Friday, June 16th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.3
Virtual reality modeling software gets new live Boolean preview and support for viewport ray tracing.
Friday, June 16th, 2023
Epic Games releases MetaHuman Animator
Hotly tipped toolset can transfer facial motion from iPhone footage to a MetaHuman in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini Update 2
Check out the latest changes to the Houdini edition of V-Ray, including a new unified installer, and updates to the Hydra render delegate for Solaris.
Wednesday, June 14th, 2023
Continuum 2023.5 ships
Check up the new features in the popular suite of effects plugins, including a sizeable update to particle generator Particle Illusion.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
Magma adds new 'ethically responsible' AI art tools
Browser-based art platform's new AI Assistant is based on Stable Diffusion, but offers AI tagging and prompt tracking.
Monday, June 12th, 2023
Free tool Grassify adds grass to Blender models
Add fast-rendering animatable grass to any Blender model with this free Geometry Nodes set-up.
Friday, June 9th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2
Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender
GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0
Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Esri ships CityEngine 2023
Check out the new features in the procedural 3D city generation software, including better terrain sculpting and section rendering.
Monday, June 5th, 2023
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 8.2.2 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.
Monday, June 5th, 2023