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Foundry ships Katana 5.0

Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Foundry ships Modo 15.2

3D modelling and rendering app gets new Primitive Slice tool and render-time Boolean system. Perpetual licences discontinued.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021

Foundry ships Modo 15.0

Iterative update to the modelling and rendering app overhauls MeshFusion and the Animation Editor, adds viewport depth of field.

Friday, March 19th, 2021

Foundry ships Modo 14.2

3D modelling and rendering app gets intuitive new Rig Clay system for posing characters, plus support for Cryptomatte and USD export.

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Foundry ships Modo 14.1

3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Foundry ships Modo 13.1

It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.

Friday, August 16th, 2019

Foundry ships Modo 13.0

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Foundry ships Modo 12.1

Varied update adds new integrated VR viewport, new hard-surface animation options, improved modelling and UV packing tools.

Thursday, June 21st, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 12.0

First release in the Modo 12 Series overhauls the Mesh Paint tool, and adds a neat new Surface Strips system to MeshFusion modelling.

Thursday, March 29th, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 11.1

Videos: Update adds live bridge to Unreal Engine, better modelling and UV packing tools, option to bake object space normal maps.

Friday, June 30th, 2017

The Foundry ships Modo 10.2

Videos: Big new update revamps MeshFusion, adds new procedural modelling and auto retopology options. See them all in action here.

Thursday, October 13th, 2016