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All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Unity 2019.2 ships

Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Upcoming material-creation tool now free to all, not just people with existing Substance subscriptions.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Voxel sculpting, painting and retopo tool gets 'soft Boolean' system, updated UV unwrapping, resolution-independent painting.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2019

Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019