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Substance Alchemist to feature micro assets, splatter filters
New demo video reveals more details of Allegorithmic's intriguing next-gen material creation tool.
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Meshroom 2019.1 is out now
Open-source photogrammetry tool adds support for source images captured using projected light, and now runs on non-Nvidia GPUs.
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SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Rhino
Rhino edition of the renderer gets new smart rendering features, plus expanded support for Grasshopper.
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Godot team ships Godot 3.1
Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.
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Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2019 Build 30
Inexpensive image-editing app adds Poisson blending, blemish removal, new 2D animation tools.
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SideFX launches PilotPDG
Standalone pipeline tool lets studios build new VFX, game dev and machine learning workflows around Houdini's new PDG tech.
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Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
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Master environment art workflows for videogames
Get started with Naughty Dog artist Martin Teichmann's new series of videos for The Gnomon Workshop.
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Eye candy: SideFX’s 2019 Houdini games reel
See the best new real-time work created in Houdini, from mobile racing titles to Marvel's Spider-Man.
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Wysilab introduces perpetual licences for Instant Terra
Promising landscape-generation tool now costs $149 for 8K terrain export, or $199 for unlimited res.
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Watch Neon Noir, Crytek’s new real-time ray tracing demo
The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.
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Review: Nvidia Titan RTX
Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.
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Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.18
Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.
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Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU
Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.
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The Heretic demo showcases realistic digital humans in Unity
New tech demo is a 'first attempt' at rendering photorealistic real-time characters in the game engine.
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Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year
Physics update due this summer, real-time ray tracing based on Nvidia's RTX tech later this fall.
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Nvidia unveils Omniverse
USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for visual effects and animation production aims to be 'the Google Docs of 3D design'.
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Roper Technologies acquires Foundry
Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal.
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Otoy releases first preview build of OctaneRender 2019
Support for Nvidia RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing provides 'up to 7.5x' rendering speed boost.
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