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Download TextMesh Pro for Unity for free
$95 Unity Award-shortlisted replacement for the native UI text and text mesh tools now free to all.
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Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2017 product roadmap
Features to include new cinematics toolsets, a scriptable rendering pipeline, and a new C# job system.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke
Nuke edition of the renderer gets support for volumetrics, render denoising, Adaptive Lights system.
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Ephere releases Ornatrix V5 for 3ds Max
Hair, fur and feathers plugin can now generate hair from particles. New grooming and LOD workflows.
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Autodesk releases Maya 2017 Update 3
Sizeable update to Maya adds new motion graphics, animation, hair grooming and fluid simulation tools.
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Blackmagic ships new control panels for DaVinci Resolve
Grading software gets two low-cost hardware control surfaces. Free version now available for Linux.
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Epic Games unveils new VR editing tools in Unreal Engine
In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.
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Autodesk to raise price of its software maintenance plans
Cost of maintaining a perpetual licence of Max or Maya to rise 38% by 2019, phased in year by year.
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Amazon buys Thinkbox Software
Buyout of Deadline and Krakatoa developer will bolster Amazon Web Services' cloud rendering offerings.
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Artomatix unveils style transfer service for games artists
Cool AI tech automatically upreses PS2-era textures to today's games, or converts scanned textures to stylised ones.
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Gnomon releases Creature Modeling for Production
Master organic and hard-surface modelling in ZBrush and Modo with this seven-hour guide from Guerilla Games' Ben Erdt.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray for SketchUp 3
Update adds new UI, new library of 200 physically based materials, V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.
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Thinkbox Software releases Deadline 9.0
Render farm manager gets a range of new security features; support for KeyShot, Altus and Silhouette.
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Boris FX unveils Continuum 11 and Sapphire 11
Popular suites of effects plugins to add Primatte chromakeyer. New pricing options also announced.
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Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: fluid simulator gets new FLIP solver for liquids, updated gaseous fluid solver, new forces.
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Download over 80 free Cinema 4D materials
Get a useful range of materials in C4D format from C4D Center. Register on the site for hundreds more free resources.
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YCDIVFX releases Offline Render 1.5 for Unity
Capture in-engine footage in 16-bit multilayer EXR format. Now supports forward rendering, 360-degree output.
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NewTek previews LightWave Next
Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.
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Boomer Labs and JokerMartini release Vexus 2.0
3ds Max scene and render pass manager gets Deadline integration, 'universal render engine support'.
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Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11
VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.
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