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SideFX unveils Solaris
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.
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Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
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FXhome ships HitFilm Pro 13.0
FXhome has released HitFilm 13.0, the latest version of its editing, compositing and effects software, integrating Foundry’s 3D camera tracking technology from the Nuke product family. The update,...
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Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.20
Game engine gets new PhysX Force Region component, plus the option to interrupt one character animation transition with another.
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AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender
AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.
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MagicPictures Software ships Aq Mesher and Aq Bullet
VFX house MagicPictures Studio's OpenVDB-based meshing and Bullet physics tools now available as 3ds Max plugins.
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Anastasiy ships MagicTints 1.1
Updated: AI-trained Photoshop plugin for transferring the colour palette from one image to another now supports batch processing.
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Eye candy: Blender’s Siggraph 2019 demo reel
Watch a one-minute run-down of the award-winning shorts and R&D projects used to test Blender 2.80.
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Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2
Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.
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Sketchfab’s models of the month: July 2019
See the month's best 3D models, including this Storm King character, available to download for free.
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Joyce Cox launches Curó 2.0
Avatar VFX producer's cloud-based tool for planning and tracking budgets for visual effects projects adds support for episodic series.
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Blackmagic Design ships DaVinci Resolve 16.0
Grading and editing app gets AI-driven 'Neural Engine' to automate repetitive tasks, new effects tools.
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Blackmagic Design ships Fusion 16 Studio
Compositing app gets revamped UI and more GPU acceleration, but the free edition has been dropped.
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Blackmagic Design ships DaVinci Resolve 16.1 in beta
Latest beta focuses on editing tools like the new 'Boring Detector', but there are grading and FX updates.
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Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 5.0.4 for Maya
Gaseous fluid simulator gets new multiview option for the GPU viewport, more controls for Turbulence Noise.
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Adobe releases Substance Alchemist 0.8
Next-gen material-creation tool gets new features for organising materials, including file tagging and syncing to local disks.
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Nukeygara unveils the 2019 Akeytsu product roadmap
Unconventional animation tool to get new macOS edition and blendshape-based facial animation.
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Download 22 free game-ready 3D scans of common foods
Get Tomáš Búran's free 3D scans of fruit, veg and bakery products, with five LODs and 4K PBR textures. For commercial use.
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Shotgun Software launches Shotgun Create
Production tracking system gets artist-friendly desktop app with built-in comparative review tools.
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See 10 great VFX breakdowns from the 2019 V-Ray showreel
See breakdowns of 10 key movies, TV series and ads created in V-Ray from Chaos Group's 2019 showreel.
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