Lucasfilm and ILM open-source MaterialX
New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
virtual reality
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.1
Update to game engine adds new cinematics tools, improved sprite editing, particles and animation.
Wednesday, July 12th, 2017
Blend4Web 17.06 adds augmented reality support
Tool for converting Blender scenes into interactive web apps now creates AR as well as VR content.
Friday, July 7th, 2017
Discover how to launch a career in VR
Get career advice from artists at top VR game developer Survios at Gnomon's LA campus next Thursday. Watch free online.
Saturday, June 24th, 2017
Adobe buys Mettle's SkyBox Suite of VR tools
Popular After Effects and Premiere Pro plugins for creating 360° video now available free to Creative Cloud subscribers.
Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
Khronos Group adds PBR materials to glTF 2.0
Open format for exchanging 3D assets between game engines or web apps now supports physically based rendering.
Saturday, June 17th, 2017
Wireshape needs beta testers
New online marketplace for scanned 3D assets is offering $50 in model credits of anyone accepted for its beta program.
Monday, June 12th, 2017
UE4, Unity add support for Apple's new AR and VR tech
Find out how to get Unity and Unreal Engine running with iOS 11's ARKit and High Sierra's macOS VR.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray software development kit
VRay AppSDK is intended to accelerate penetration of V-Ray into new markets: from augmented reality to bath design.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.16
Big update to game engine adds volumetric fog; plus new physics, animation and VR editing features.
Friday, May 26th, 2017
Andrew Hazelden releases KartaVR 3 for Fusion
360-degree VR content creation tool gets option to stitch footage from PTGui project files, direct Oculus Rift support.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
Get Epic Games' free volume modelling plugin for UE4
Download this nifty new tool to paint volumetric objects directly in VR, complete with fluid velocities.
Monday, May 8th, 2017
Foundry releases Modo 11.0
New modelling options and support for OpenSubdiv 3.0, but the main news this time round is the new rental and maintenance plans.
Monday, April 24th, 2017