Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 11.2
Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
OpenColorIO
Maxon ships Redshift 3.0.46
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
Discover 5 key new features from Blender 2.93 LTS
See the highlights of today's update to the open-source 3D app, from sculpting to 2D animation.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022
Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0
Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.5
Landscape-generation software gets OpenColorIO support, plus better support for PBR workflows.
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021
See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
BorisFX releases Mocha Pro 2020.5
Workflow-focused update to planar tracking tool improves performance on deep and wide-angle shots.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020