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Act-3D releases Lumion 8.0
Real-time visualisation tool gets new Styles option for generating render variants, new Sky Light and soft shadows, support for 4K video.
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Foundry ships Modo 11.2
Videos: See the new Principled BRDF shader and procedural modelling tools in action. Lots of UV workflow improvements, too.
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Red Giant ships Universe 2.2
Library of add-ons for editing and compositing software gets updated VHS and Retrograde effects, plus 11 new, mainly retro-style transitions.
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OLM Digital ships OLM Blur, Radial Blur and Directional Blur
Download the Japanese studio's neat new free After Effects plugins tailored to 2D animation work.
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Get four free Renderpeople rigged 3D characters
Updated: Scan-based figures work in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya - and now Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine.
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Download over 250 free Cinema 4D materials
Online library C4D Center updates its set of free .c4d materials. Register on the site for hundreds more free resources.
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Download 44 free 14K HDRs of industrial environments
New website HDR Vault offers 14K spherical HDRs of industrial and public spaces under a CC0 licence.
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Discover how Marvel Studios designed Thor: Ragnarok
See six of the movie's key concept artists discuss their work at a free event at Gnomon's Hollywood campus on Saturday.
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Xsens releases MVN Animate 2018
Firm claims that its new software lets inertial motion capture match optical systems for data accuracy.
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Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11.2
Quirky low-cost digital painting tool gets new automatic brush smoothing and shading options.
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Liquid Dream Solutions ships ButterflyNetRender 7.0
Update to renderfarm manager restores desktop controller app in addition to web-based interface.
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Michael Gibson unveils MoI 4
Intuitive NURBS modelling software becomes a 64-bit app, gets new native Mac edition. Existing users can sign up for the closed beta.
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Allegorithmic ships beta of new Substance for 3ds Max plugin
Free standalone plugin generates 8K textures from Substances, and converts them to V-Ray or Arnold materials in one click.
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Lagoa to close its online rendering service
Pioneering cloud-based platform to shut down in favor of development work for current owner Autodesk.
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Trimble releases SketchUp Pro 2018
Architectural modeling tool gets new options for section cuts and BIM data, plus native STL export.
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Trimble cans SketchUp Make, launches SketchUp Free
Old free desktop edition of the software replaced by new browser-based version. Check out the differences here.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp
Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.
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3DFlow ships 3DF Zephyr 3.5
Photogrammetry software gets support for custom shaders, option to export textures in EXR format or as 32-bit TIFFs, 4K video output.
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OptiTrack ships Motive 2.0
Mocap software for firm's optical tracking systems gets neat ability to 'self-heal' calibration drift, support for OptiTrack Active VR solutions,
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Pixel Splincher releases Bricolage 2.0 for iOS
Node-based compositing system for iPads gets new colour grading tools, including support for LUTs.
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