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Crytek releases public preview of CryEngine 5.4
Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, Vulkan renderer, terrain blending.
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Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2017.2
3D texture painting app gets new Anchor Points system for creating smart multi-layer materials, free live linking plugin to Unity.
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Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5
Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.
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Maxon unveils Cinema 4D R19
Videos: see the updated viewport; new LoD system, motion graphics tools and VR camera; and the Radeon ProRender render engine.
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Pixar ships RenderMan 21.5
Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.
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Katana 3.0 users will get 3Delight renderer free
Powerful RenderMan-compliant renderer will be available as free interactive rendering plugin when Katana 3.0 ships.
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Massive Software unveils Massive Prime 9.0
Heavyweight crowd simulator to get new 'universal plugin' to allow compatibility to 'all major' 3D apps.
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Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 9 Studio
Major update cuts the price of the compositor to $299, adds unlimited network rendering, new tracking, VR and review tools.
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Abvent ships Twinmotion 2018
Real-time visualisation tool gets new core architecture based on UE4, new automated viewport quality system, new Mac version.
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Luxion ships KeyShot 7
Renderer gets new VR camera, support for animated mesh deformations and video maps, better material and HDRI editing.
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Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 14 for After Effects
New version of the motion graphics and VFX plugin suite includes big updates to Particular and Form.
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Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.
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Fabric Software announces Fabric Engine 2.6
Platform for developing VFX and games tools gets support for USD, Autodesk's AnimX, new RBF solver.
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Animal Logic open-sources its AL_USDMaya plugin
Studio's in-house USD authoring plugin for Maya, used on Peter Rabbit, now available open-source.
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Foundry releases first beta of Modo VR
Work-in-progress tech lets users manipulate content in Modo in virtual reality. Sign up for the beta.
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Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR
Nifty new VR app enables users to sketch or model in 3D using an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset.
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Brekel releases OpenVR Recorder
Interesting new mocap tool records tracking data direct from your HTC Vive or Oculus Rift in FBX format.
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Foundry to integrate AMD’s Radeon ProRender into Modo
Native version of the physically based GPU renderer in beta this year. New open-source 'Baikal' edition out now.
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Pixar unveils RenderMan 22 and RenderMan XPU
Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech.
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Nurulize unveils Atom View and Nu Design
Amazing new VR toolset lets artists stream complex VFX assets into game engines via point clouds.
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