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NVIDIA

Check out the new features in the real-time ray tracing renderer, including OpenPBR support and updates to smoke and fire sims.

Tuesday, September 29th, 2026

Updated for Alpha 3: next major version of the GPU renderer can now bake SDFs to meshes, to use as proxy geometry in simulations.

Thursday, September 24th, 2026

Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, like animation library builder Animcraft, game engine Unigine, and OctaneRender.

Sunday, September 20th, 2026

Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, like HDR Light Studio, free Maya rigging toolset mGear, and SwitchX, Beeble's VFX AI model.

Sunday, September 13th, 2026

Discover key features for VFX artists and colorists in this sizeable update to the free grading and editing app and its $295 Studio edition.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2026

Popular 3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets a complete new vehicle toolset, along with new Gaussian Splatting features.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026

Check out the changes to the AI video mocap add-on for iClone, like support for CC5 HD characters, control curves, and AMD GPUs.

Friday, July 31st, 2026

Latest open-source version of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2 adds work-in-progress MaterialX support.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2026

Photogrammetry software now generates 3D Gaussian Splats from source images or video, as well as point clouds and 3D meshes.

Friday, July 17th, 2026

SDK for games and CG software developers now supports FSR 4.1 AI upscaling on RDNA 3 GPUs like the Radeon RX 7000 Series.

Monday, June 29th, 2026

Rendering and visualization software gets Apple GPU support, a new cloud rendering service, and new subscription pricing.

Thursday, June 25th, 2026

Pro photogrammetry tool can now use both AMD consumer and workstation GPUs to speed up processing. Free to indie artists.

Thursday, June 25th, 2026

Blender version of the renderer also gets a new Node Wrangler and GPU rendering on AMD GPUs, including in the free Community Edition.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2026