Anima2D on Unity Store
Anima2D, a popular skeletal animation software, will be available to the entire Unity developer community for free starting in January 2017
3ds Max 2018.2
End of August Autodesk has presented 3ds Max 2018.2 release with procedural spline modeling and animation tools, batch processing for some background tasks, and some other improvements.
KeyShot 8.1
Luxion has released KeyShot 8.1, a free update for 8.0 users - following the release of KeyShot 8.0 in October.
V-RAY IS FASTER WITH EMBREE
V-Ray 3.0 for Maya with Embree ray caster introduces a significantly faster ray tracing core. This speeds up a number of calculations for lighting, shading, GI and more.
Thea Render 1.5
Recently the new edition v1.5 of Thea Render was presented. New features introduced are mostly related to the material system.
Unigine 2.3
Real-time 3d engine Unigine released version 2.3 introducing round Earth, photorealistic water and new depth of field.
Substance Source Textile Collection
Substance Source hit 1000 materials on by adding 150 scan-based materials to their Textile Collection.
OctaneRender for Unity
Unity engine developers announced their partnership with OTOY and presented OctaneRender for Unity Editor.
Real HDR 1.5 released
PlaySys Software Engineering has released Real HDR 1.5 with a Skylight Module for creating photorealistic skies and clouds for CGI.
MENTALCORE FOR MAYA AND MENTAL RAY WORKFLOW
MentalCore, developed by Supervising Technical Director Corey Frew at Oktobor Animation, animation studio for several high-profile Nickelodeon series, is production-proven and provides enhancements to the standard rendering workflow using Autodesk Maya with NVIDIA mental ray.
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PIXEL PLOW. RENDER FARM SAFETY
Founders of Pixel Plow render farm clear the issues of data protection, security and costs for rendering.
