Foundry ships Modo 13.2
3D modelling and animation tool gets new mPath render engine, new Planar IK solver for character rigging, new Edge Chamfer tool.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
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Foundry ships Nuke 12.0, NukeX 12.0, Nuke Studio 12.0
Base edition of the software gets neat Healing Brush-like Inpaint node; NukeX gets VR compositing tools from Cara VR.
Sunday, September 29th, 2019
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2020 product roadmap
See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3
Friday, September 27th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.1
It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.
Friday, August 16th, 2019
10bit FX ships Notch 0.9.22
Real-time VFX and motion graphics tools get new GPU-agnostic hybrid ray tracing system, plus native support for Substance materials.
Friday, June 7th, 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
Sneak peek: real-time ray tracing in Notch Builder
See the real-time motion graphics tool's interesting new path tracing system. Runs on any current GPU.
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
OpenToonz developers release OpenToonz 1.3
Open-source 2D animation tool gets new text generator effect, plus touchscreen support on Windows.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
New Streaming Server script live-links Mosketch to Maya
Pose characters by drawing in the viewport with Moka Studio's innovative animation tool, then see the result in Maya.
Friday, October 5th, 2018
Unity 2018.1 is now shipping. Check out the highlights here
It's a huge update, so get up to speed faster with our run-down of the key features for CG artists.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap
See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.
Friday, March 23rd, 2018
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Unity
Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.
Monday, December 18th, 2017
Reallusion ships iClone 7.1
Update to real-time character animation tool overhauls the DoF system and animation timeline; adds paid-for Curve Editor plugin.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017