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GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021

Compositing software's Content Aware-Fill object removal system now compensates automatically for lighting changes across a shot.

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

See all the new features in the Houdini edition of renderer, from ACEScg to updates to VRayDirt.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

Renderer gets neat new sky model, new distance map and V-Ray-style adaptive environment sampling.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2020

Suite of After Effects plugins for visual effects work gets Lens Distortion, a new automated lens correction tool. Check it out here.

Friday, May 15th, 2020

Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Big update to the iPad sketching and painting app adds new brush editor and more animation tools.

Monday, December 9th, 2019

Ex-Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's shot review tool is engineered for serious VFX and animation work.

Sunday, November 24th, 2019

New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Update improves Mari's handling of colour spaces and selection groups. Mac users get the same features - but in Mari 3.4, not 4.1.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

Landmark stable build of the open source image editor supports 32-bit linear workflow, adds new warping and foreground selection tools.

Sunday, April 29th, 2018

Open-source image editing tool gets support for on-canvas gradient editing, improved PSD import.

Friday, December 22nd, 2017