Autodesk releases Maya & 3ds Max 2015 Extension 1

New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Autodesk announces its 2015 product releases

We assess the feature lists of the upcoming Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage 2015.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2014

Autodesk Labs releases Project Miller

New free work-in-progress tool resurfaces meshes for 3D printing and troubleshoots common errors.

Monday, October 14th, 2013

Autodesk releases 123D Creature

Fun iPad app sculpts and poses characters via a skeletal system, then readies them for 3D printing.

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Review: Autodesk's 2012 entertainment software

Jason Lewis assesses how Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage and Mudbox 2012 perform in the real world.

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 6.0

Check out the new features in the material authoring and 3D capture software, including OpenPBR support and new material templates.

Monday, June 29th, 2026

Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 12.1

Update to the 3D texture painting software for games and VFX reworks baking and UV unwrapping. Check out all of the new features.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 16.0

Latest major update to the material authoring software adds new 3D Shape Splatter node, SDF shape creation tools, OpenPBR support.

Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2026.1

Big update to the GPU renderer adds meshlet streaming for dense geometry, and support for 3DGS data, MaterialX and OpenPBR.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4

Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Unity previews its roadmap for Unity 6.1 and beyond

Updated: See the new tools due in the game engine in 2025, including updates to shading, rendering, animation and world building.

Thursday, September 26th, 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

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2022.1

First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022