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

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

Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

Blender 3.0 ships

Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap

See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.

Thursday, October 28th, 2021

New Blender 3.0 release date announced

Milestone update to the open-source 3D software now due for a stable release early in December.

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021