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Read our pick of the latest features, from the power to create terrain shaders in the Shader Editor to a big step towards a unified renderer.

Friday, December 5th, 2025

Check out the changes to the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, including updates to displacement.

Thursday, December 4th, 2025

Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and animation software, including new Advanced Distributions for motion graphics.

Thursday, December 4th, 2025

Big update to the GPU renderer adds meshlet streaming for dense geometry, and support for 3DGS data, MaterialX and OpenPBR.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in January include 3DCoat, 3D Scan Store, CGTrader.

Friday, November 28th, 2025

Rendering and visualization software gets support for OpenPBR and Cryptomatte and is now 'up to 50% faster' on AMD GPUs.

Thursday, November 20th, 2025

Lightweight 3D modeling and UV mapping software gets new plugin transferring edits made to a model to and from Blender.

Thursday, November 20th, 2025

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from Geometry Nodes and Cycles to changes to color management.

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025

Architectural renderer gets new procedural night sky system, support for 3D Gaussian Splatting, and new AI material generator.

Monday, November 17th, 2025

Library Drop 07 makes 100+ new assets available for the real-time rendering and look dev software, including 50 new brushes.

Sunday, November 16th, 2025

'Most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight production renderer makes RenderMan XPU ready for final-frame output.

Friday, November 14th, 2025

See our pick of the features in the latest version of Unreal Engine, from the new procedural plant editor to updates to MetaHumans.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025

3D software for architectural visualization and VFX gets updates to the Conform Modifier, Material Switcher and USD workflows.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025