Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2019
Now shipping: Watch videos of the new features, including support for Open Shading Language and the Advanced Wood procedural map.
Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
VR
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19
Update adds live link plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, material layers, physical units for lights.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
IKinema releases Orion 1.0
Neat new system based around the HTC Vive makes it possible to create a complete sub-$1,500 full-body mocap setup for VR work.
Monday, February 26th, 2018
Facebook's Quill VR painting tool now lets you animate, too
Quill 1.4 lets you animate layers or brush strokes frame by frame and export the result in Alembic format.
Friday, February 9th, 2018
SideFX gives all Houdini Indie users a free extra licence
Maximum resolution of rendered output also raised to 4K, although the yearly rental price is up slightly.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Godot team ships Godot 3.0
Big update to the open-source game engine to add new PBR renderer, new audio engine, visual scripting, and early VR support.
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
Science.D.Visions ships 3DEqualizer 4 Release 5
Big update to matchmoving app adds new GPU-based engine, LSF solver, better 360-degree tracking.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
Sign up for Mari Live in Hollywood next month
See how top studios use the 3D painting tool at Foundry's user event at Gnomon on 1 February. Watch free online.
Friday, January 12th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.1 in beta
New C#-scriptable render pipeline and node-based shader editor, but no more native Substance support.
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Meet the new directors of Google's Spotlight Stories
See the creators of the award-winning series of VR shorts speak at Gnomon's LA campus on 16 Jan. Watch free online.
Sunday, January 7th, 2018
NewTek ships LightWave 2018
Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.
Monday, January 1st, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.3
New particle shading options, plus updates to the Cinemachine, 360° video and lightmap baking toolsets.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
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