Esri releases CityEngine 2026
Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new tools for creating street layouts, and a Python 3 API.
Monday, July 13th, 2026
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Howler 2027 is out with new 3D rendering environment Howler 3D
Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation software, including a new physically based rendering environment.
Sunday, July 12th, 2026
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Houdini
Houdini edition of the renderer gets support for relighting Gaussian splats, better volume rendering, tighter integration with Solaris.
Sunday, July 12th, 2026
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Maya
Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.
Friday, July 10th, 2026
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2026.4
Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, including updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting and the Neural Radiance Cache.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Reallusion releases Headshot 3.1
Check out the new features in the AI-powered Character Creator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Foundry releases Mari 8.0 in open beta
Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting software, including new nodes for hex tiling, color grading and A/B comparisons.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Polygonflow releases Dash 1.12
Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool - like the option to stack objects vertically when laying out scenes.
Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 6.0
Check out the new features in the material authoring and 3D capture software, including OpenPBR support and new material templates.
Monday, June 29th, 2026
Boris FX releases Optics 2026.5 with AI-powered facial masking
Standalone app and plugin for adding cinematic effects to still images also now works with non-Adobe software, including Affinity.
Friday, June 26th, 2026
KeyShot releases KeyShot 2026.2
Rendering and visualization software gets Apple GPU support, a new cloud rendering service, and new subscription pricing.
Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Epic Games releases RealityScan 2.2 with AMD GPU support
Pro photogrammetry tool can now use both AMD consumer and workstation GPUs to speed up processing. Free to indie artists.
Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 12.1
Update to the 3D texture painting software for games and VFX reworks baking and UV unwrapping. Check out all of the new features.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026