CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 12.1

3D clothing design software gets USD import and export, plus experimental Omniverse connector.

Thursday, May 25th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.1

Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.1

Maya-friendly character animation software adds USD import, audio and video editing, new Picker Tool.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Pixologic ships ZBrush 2021.6

Free update to the digital sculpting app adds neat curve-based brushes, new Mesh from Mask system, USD import and export.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021

Foundry ships Nuke 12.2, NukeX 12.2, Nuke Studio 12.2

Compositing and editorial tools get USD import, licence roaming, new synchronous shot review system.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

RandomControl releases Maverick Indie and Maverick Studio 2025.1

See the the new features in the GPU renderers, including better USD support and the option to import and render skinned characters.

Monday, April 14th, 2025

Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Unreal Engine 5.4: five key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the new features in UE5, from Motion Graphics Mode and modular character rigging to virtual production and VFX.

Monday, April 29th, 2024

Foundry releases Mari 7.0

3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes

Monday, December 4th, 2023

Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.06

Now shipping: update to real-time rendering toolkit extends OpenUSD support, adds support for rendering EXR sequences.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 1

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

Marmoset releases Toolbag 4.05

Real-time rendering and look dev app gets new texture painting features, light baking, USD support.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023