Autodesk releases Maya 2025.1

Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, from updates to LookdevX to a sneak peek at character rigging in Bifrost.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

Autodesk releases Arnold 7.3

Check out the changes in the compatibility-breaking update to the renderer, including better denoising and progressive rendering.

Thursday, March 28th, 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

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.5

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

Chaos Czech releases Corona 11 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including updates to Chaos Scatter, and support for Open Image Denoise 2.

Friday, December 8th, 2023

Godot 4.2 ships: check out 5 key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source game engine, including updates to rendering, lightmaps and GPU particles.

Friday, December 1st, 2023

Otoy unveils the Octane 2024 product roadmap

Check out the features due in the GPU renderer in 2024, including MaterialX support, new AI assistant OctaneGPT, and light field baking.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Chaos releases Vantage 2.0

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

F3D 2.0 is a free, lightweight ray traced 3D model viewer

Neat open-source tool displays 3D models or point clouds in common formats on Windows, Linux, macOS.

Thursday, May 4th, 2023

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.13

Update makes Intel's OIDN denoiser and Cinema 4D's Brick and Tile shaders available to all of the renderer's host applications.

Thursday, February 9th, 2023

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Blender 3.3 LTS ships

See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

Foundry ships Modo 16.0

3D animation and rendering tool gets new modelling, deformation and task-automation features. $199 add-on NPR Kit 2 included for free.

Thursday, April 28th, 2022