August 29, 2019
Lighting and look dev tool gets new material node graph system; better hair shading and multi-camera rendering in its 3Delight renderer. 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 »
July 29, 2019
Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects. Read More »
July 25, 2019
Updated: Nekki's unusual animation software gets deep-learning-based pose prediction tool, new quadruped model. Read More »
July 24, 2019
Story development tool gets new round-tripping system with Media Composer, autosave system, migration tool for Flix 5 projects. Read More »
July 10, 2019
VFX-focused update to the asset management tool for Megascans scan data adds USD support, plus new integration for Clarisse iFX. 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 »
February 1, 2019
Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here. Read More »
November 17, 2018
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping. Read More »
September 10, 2018
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco. Read More »
March 8, 2018
New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX. Read More »
January 16, 2018
Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format. Read More »
August 4, 2017
Studio's in-house USD authoring plugin for Maya, used on Peter Rabbit, now available open-source. Read More »
August 4, 2017
Platform for developing VFX and games tools gets support for USD, Autodesk's AnimX, new RBF solver. Read More »
July 13, 2017
New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry. Read More »
June 27, 2017
Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange. Read More »
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