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RenderMan

Now shipping: Update extends the sculpting and painting app's Smart Materials and retopo systems, adds support for RenderMan rendering.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

Popular hair-creation plugin gets new tools for generating realistic mesh hair, new dynamics options.

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

Powerful 3D city-generation software used on Independence Day 2 gets new measurement and building customisation toolsets.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

See the best new work rendered in RenderMan: from blockbusters like Ghost in the Shell to indie shorts.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.

Monday, July 31st, 2017

Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.

Friday, June 23rd, 2017

Updated: Nifty Maya lighting design plugin gets support for dome lights, option to import custom HDRIs.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

New free, time-unlimited edition lets artists try the Maya crowd simulation tool before they buy. Support for Redshift also added.

Monday, December 12th, 2016

New apps added to online render service alongside Maya and Nuke. GPU compute coming next year?

Monday, November 28th, 2016

For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016