Beeble launches SwitchLight 2.0
Next-gen video-to-PBR AI model lets artists relight video footage without manual 3D reconstruction. Free in the Beeble Studio web app.
Saturday, July 5th, 2025
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Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4
Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.0
Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 2.6
Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.
Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Unity releases Unity 6
Long-awaited major release of the game engine ships. Check out its new features, new release schedule, and new pricing and licensing.
Friday, October 18th, 2024
Tools to watch in Fall 2024: SwitchLight Studio
Promising AI-based virtual projection app extracts actors from video and relights them to match a new background. Try it free in beta.
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
Eevee Next finally arrives in Blender
Discover how to port old scenes to use the long-awaited overhaul of the Eevee renderer ahead of its release in Blender 4.2 next week.
Friday, July 12th, 2024
Lumion releases Lumion 2024.0
Check out the new features in the real-time visualization tool, including better, faster ray traced rendering, with support for temporal denoising.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.5
Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Discover 5 key features for CG artists in Unity 2023.1
Discover the key features in the new stable version of Unity, including better water, hair, skin and lens flares.
Thursday, July 6th, 2023
See the 2023 Blender development roadmap
See which major features are due in the open-source 3D software in 2023 - and which are delayed.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2023.1
Now shipping: visualisation tool gets streamlined new UI, updated path tracer, multi-GPU rendering.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Nvidia announces Spring 2023 updates to Omniverse
Check out the latest changes to Omniverse including upcoming support for real-time ray traced subsurface shading.
Saturday, March 25th, 2023