LightWave Digital acquires LightWave
Updated: LightWave 2023 due for release in Q4 2023. Upgrade pricing includes 'shares in LightWave'.
Friday, April 28th, 2023
visual effects
Check out Maxon's gorgeous 2023 Cinema 4D demo reel
With 70 projects in three minutes, this might be the most eye candy ever crammed into a single reel.
Friday, April 28th, 2023
Silhouette 2023 gets new generative AI art tools
Sizeable update to the rotoscoping app also adds new film grain nodes and the Primatte chroma keyer.
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2023
Planar tracking app gets updates to roto, tracking and rendering to streamline work on complex shots.
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Download Alex Senechal's free 10K studio HDRIs
Get 10,000 x 5,000px HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups in HDR and EXR format.
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
Isotropix has discontinued Clarisse
Updated: Emails sent to users say that sales and development of the layout & look dev tool have ended.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
MaterialX 1.38.7 adds graph editor, native Metal support
Check out the changes to the open standard for materials and look dev data, widely used in VFX software.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
Tutorial: Create a Waterwheel Simulation in Houdini
Master procedural modeling and fluid simulation with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
Download free 3D resources from Substance 3D Assets
Updated: get the latest set of free assets, including leaf and plant materials in .sbsar and .sbs format.
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
What's hot in iRender for Redshift and OctaneRender
[Sponsored] Find out how the online render farm's 6 x RTX 4090 servers speed up GPU renders.
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2304
3D tracking app gets new options for solving shots with anamorphic distance and with focus breathing.
Monday, April 17th, 2023
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2023.5
Check out the new features in the suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.
Saturday, April 15th, 2023