Material authoring software InstaMAT gets native Linux edition
Linux-based VFX and games studios get new alternatives to the Substance 3D tools. Includes the Blender and Maya integrations.
Monday, May 4th, 2026
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Marvelous Designer is now available for Linux
New Linux version of the 3D clothing design software for VFX and game development adds a Python API for studios to automate repetitive tasks.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
Esri releases CityEngine 2026
Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new tools for creating street layouts, and a Python 3 API.
Monday, July 13th, 2026
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Maya
Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.
Friday, July 10th, 2026
Inbibo releases Adonis 2.1 with AdonisML
Major update to the soft tissue simulation add-on for Maya and Houdini adds new machine learning toolset. See all the new features.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Foundry releases Mari 8.0 in open beta
Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting software, including new nodes for hex tiling, color grading and A/B comparisons.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Foundry releases Nuke 17.1 in open beta
Check out the changes to the compositing software, including relighting Gaussian splats and Hydra 2.0 support in the 3D viewer.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2026.5
Planar and 3D tracking software gets AI-based point tracking tech for tracking previously impossible shots. See the other new features.
Friday, June 12th, 2026
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 21.0
Now out of beta: discover key new features for VFX artists and colorists in the free color grading and editing app and its $295 Studio edition.
Thursday, June 4th, 2026
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 21.0
Now out of beta: 3D compositing app gets new motion graphics tools and updates to deep compositing, USD and lens correction workflows.
Thursday, June 4th, 2026
The Pixel Farm adds new point cloud toolset to PFTrack 26.05
Major update to the tracking app generates dense point clouds from a tracked shot for export in USD files, or to train Gaussian Splats.
Saturday, May 30th, 2026
Autodesk releases Maya 2027.1
Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and animation app, like OpenTimelineIO support and updates to LookdevX and Bifrost.
Thursday, May 21st, 2026
Autodesk releases Flame 2027
Compositing, finishing and effects software gets a new Annotations system and two new AI models for generating depth maps from clips.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026