Autodesk ships Maya 2022.1
3D animation software gets new global search feature, tools for authoring interactive tutorials, and updates to the deformer system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
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HieroPlayer is now free to Nuke and NukeX users
Free subscriptions to the VFX shot review tool available to Nuke users with active maintenance contracts.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Insydium launches Fused
New $1,000 product bundle includes all of Insydium's Cinema 4D plugins and asset packs, plus new modelling add-on MeshTools.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Eye candy: Epic Games' new UE4 in-camera VFX demo
Check out this three-minute short with environments rendered in real time inside Unreal Engine 4.27.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Master character look dev in Maya and Arnold
Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Foundry ships Modo 15.1
Modelling and rendering app gets new Curve Booleans system, plus updates to scene testing, the mPath renderer, and USD support.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Unity Technologies acquires SpeedTree developer IDV
Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
See After Effects' new multi-frame rendering features
Render previews or final frames faster on multi-core CPUs with the latest beta of the compositing app.
Wednesday, July 21st, 2021
NIM Labs launches NIM 5.0
Sizeable update to the CG studio management platform reworks artists' timecards, and introduces a new rules-based payroll system.
Saturday, July 17th, 2021
Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX
Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.
Friday, July 16th, 2021
Artlist acquires FXhome
HitFilm and Imerge Pro developer will become the rapidly expanding stock music and video content firm's in-house software division.
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
OptiTrack ships Motive 3.0
In beta: optical mocap software's new 'Quantum Solver' can track 10 actors simultaneously. See all of its new features and new pricing.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.2 for Blender and Maya
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.
Monday, July 12th, 2021