Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps

Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

AWS releases Deadline 10.3

Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

Pixar ships RenderMan 25.2

Check out the new features in the heavyweight production renderer, including new compositing modes in the Stylized Looks NPR toolset.

Friday, June 30th, 2023

Free tool: Stable Houdini puts Stable Diffusion in Houdini

Use generative AI inside Houdini to create matte paintings or concept art based on simple 3D scenes.

Wednesday, May 10th, 2023

These free scripts put ChatGPT inside CG software

Use the AI chatbot to write custom scripts inside After Effects, Blender, Nuke and Unity with these add-ons.

Friday, March 24th, 2023

Autodesk ships Flame 2023.3

Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Foundry releases Nuke 14.0

Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Epic releases MetaHuman DNA Calibration Library

Epic Games' new free tools let users view and edit the 'DNA' of next-gen MetaHuman characters.

Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

Auto Character System 3 aims to redefine rigging in Modo

Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 18.1

Compositing software gets support for AI-based Magic Mask system and more GPU-accelerated tools.

Monday, November 14th, 2022

Luxion ships KeyShot 11.3

Check out the latest features in the rendering and technical animation software, and the changes to the separate KeyShot Web Viewer.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022

Blender will no longer ditch the VFX Reference platform

Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.

Thursday, September 29th, 2022

Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 5 R9

Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.

Friday, September 2nd, 2022