Pixologic released a new version of their world leading digital sculpting software ZBrush 4R2 for Windows and Mac OS. ZBrush changed the way of CG industry bringing the possibilities of „hand“ sculpting and painting into digital world. Pixologic included into the new version a lot of new features from which the most interesting is DynaMesh, the new base mesh generator, will allow you to realize your concepts via a workflow that ignores the traditional geometry barrier.

Updates to the popular figure-design applications are available now. Both of these have a number of display and rendering improvements, including support for subsurface scattering, support for vertex weight maps and an updated OpenGL display. Poser Pro 2012 is designed for the professional artist and production team.  It's the fastest way to add pre-rigged and fully textured 3D characters to their projects. Included plug-ins transport pre-rigged, fully textured and animated 3D characters into 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave 3D and CINEMA 4D projects. 

All blender artists have a unique opportunity to do something remarkable. Now you can make splash screen for Blender 2.60. You have to maintain some simple rules like keep the title area free, make your picture fit in the given space below or that you can use your old works. Full list of rules you`ll find in our source. Deadline for entries is 5th of October. 

ClockStone® FBX Viewer is a free* software tool to view numerous different 3D file types as used by Autodesk® 3ds Max, Maya, AutoCAD and others: FBX, 3DS, DXF, DAE (Collada), OBJ. The viewer is based on ClockStone's DirectX 11 engine and supports a large number of advanced real-time features, such as rendering coloured soft shadows for any type of light source, applying post-process filters, etc. If you want to download it or see all features, please follow the link at the end of article.