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 »
January 22, 2019
Sign up for the free closed beta of games developer Nekki's unusual, intuitive-looking animation tool. Read More »
November 29, 2018
Update to look dev tool extends the Hydra viewport and 3Delight render plugin; supports the VFX Reference Platform 2017 standard. 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 »
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 | 1 comment
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 »
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