Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1
New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
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Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1
3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing
See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
Golaem ships Golaem 8.0
Major update to the Maya crowd simulation software lets users interact with Golaem simulations inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1
GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap
See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
SideFX releases Houdini 19
Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2
3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
ArmorPaint 0.8 ships
Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0
Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
hdRstr ray traces thousands of area lights in real time
Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27
See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.
Monday, August 23rd, 2021