Foundry releases Katana 3.6
Check out the new snapping options in the lighting and look dev tool, and the new toon shading system in its 3Delight NSI renderer.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
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Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.13 for Blender and 3ds Max
Tool for turning Blender scenes into 3D web apps gets support for Eevee shadows, Matcap materials, toon shading effects.
Monday, July 15th, 2019
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
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020
New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Check out the new features in ZBrush 2019
Big free update to the sculpting software adds new NPR render system and alpha modelling toolkit.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4 for Maya
Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
Monday, October 29th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Create free CG characters with Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.6.1
Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.
Sunday, January 28th, 2018
See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for Maya
Big update adds hybrid CPU/GPU rendering; V-Ray materials and lights work directly in Viewport 2.0.
Thursday, September 14th, 2017
Smith Micro ships Poser 11 and Poser Pro 11
Figure animation software gets new PBR renderer based on Blender's Cycles; improved rigging, Alembic export in the Pro edition.
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
Luxology demos NPR Kit and XfrogPlants for modo
Updated: Cool non-photorealistic rendering add-on for modo now shipping at a special rate of $149.
Thursday, August 30th, 2012