May 20, 2020
Sizeable update to the renderer adds new options to bake global illumination to textures or point clouds; macOS Catalina support, Read More »
May 11, 2020
USD-native Maya layout, look dev and lighting toolset now supports V-Ray and RenderMan. Freelancers can use it for free. Read More »
May 6, 2020
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support. Read More »
April 3, 2020
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur. Read More »
January 10, 2020
Lighting and look dev tool gets new Monitor Layer displaying ray traced renders in the viewport, plus 2-30x speed boost on multi-core CPUs. Read More »
December 15, 2019
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text. Read More »
December 12, 2019
Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users. Read More »
August 1, 2019
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer. Read More »
June 4, 2019
New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders. Read More »
May 9, 2019
Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten". Read More »
April 17, 2019
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising. Read More »
March 27, 2019
Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology. Read More »
March 19, 2019
USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for visual effects and animation production aims to be 'the Google Docs of 3D design'. Read More »
November 17, 2018
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping. Read More »
May 3, 2017
Look dev and lighting tool gets new API to lay groundwork for native viewer based on Pixar's Hydra real-time rendering architecture. Read More »
April 24, 2017
Platform for developing CG tools gets revamped Tab Search, 'Kludge' API for incorporating external C++ libraries. Read More »
March 7, 2017
In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due. Read More »
August 3, 2016
We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins. Read More »
July 27, 2016
Updated: New 'super Alembic' system for exchanging VFX scene data released officially. Plugins for Maya and Katana. Read More »
October 15, 2013
Universal Scene Description could help exchange entire production scenes between VFX pipeline tools. Read More »
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