Esri releases CityEngine 2025.1

Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new workflows for creating more complex forms for buildings.

Monday, December 8th, 2025

AWS to put Deadline into maintenance mode next month

Free renderfarm management software will still be supported, but will only get critical fixes. Users advised to 'explore Deadline Cloud'.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025

SideFX just released Houdini 21: check out its five key features

Read our pick of the changes in Houdini 21, from Copernicus and KineFX to new AI workflows - then see a list of all 300+ new features.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

Sneak peek: Houdini 21

Read our list of 300+ new features due in the next version of Houdini - from Neural Point Surface for liquids to the Otis organic tissue solver.

Tuesday, August 5th, 2025

LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.

Friday, April 18th, 2025

Poly Hammer releases Meta-Human DNA add-on for Blender

Intriguing new tool lets you create or edit Unreal Engine MetaHuman characters directly inside Blender. Now available in beta.

Monday, March 31st, 2025

GIMP 3.0 is out after seven years in development

Long-awaited update to the open-source image editor adds non-destructive layer effects and better interoperability with Photoshop.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2024.0

Significant update to the popular UV unwrapping and packing software overhauls the UI and adds new tools for creating games trimsheets.

Friday, June 21st, 2024

5 key features in Blender 4.1

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D app, from better baking to improvements to Cycles and the Sequencer.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2023 for Mac

Long-awaited new macOS edition of the veteran 3D animation tool is due out later today, for both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Friday, February 9th, 2024

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