January 3, 2022
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates. Read More »
August 4, 2021
Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya. Read More »
July 12, 2021
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur. Read More »
June 30, 2021
Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here. Read More »
March 31, 2021
Significant update to the real-time visualisation tool adds new bridge to UE4, new Megascans assets. Read More »
February 11, 2021
Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations. Read More »
March 25, 2020
New free edition of the 3ds Max production renderer lacks hybrid CPU/GPU and network rendering, but can be used commercially. Read More »
January 12, 2020
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers. Read More »
July 15, 2019
Tool for turning Blender scenes into 3D web apps gets support for Eevee shadows, Matcap materials, toon shading effects. Read More »
May 27, 2019
Updated to cover ZBrush 2019: Master digital sculpting with Madeleine Spencer's detailed 21-hour training video. Read More »
March 27, 2019
New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster. Read More »
March 26, 2019
See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now. Read More »
March 12, 2019
GPU renderer gets new procedural systems Vectron and Spectron; Cryptomatte and NVLink support. Read More »
December 21, 2018
Free update to the look dev and rendering system adds support for Disney's principled shader model. Read More »
November 7, 2018
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options. Read More »
October 29, 2018
Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Read More »
May 4, 2018
Video: see the new toon shader coming up in the next major update to the Maya edition of the renderer. Read More »
April 6, 2018
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support. Read More »
January 1, 2018
Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack. Read More »
December 24, 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest. Read More »
