Foundry ships Modo 14.2

3D modelling and rendering app gets intuitive new Rig Clay system for posing characters, plus support for Cryptomatte and USD export.

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Foundry ships Modo 14.1

3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Foundry releases Mari 4.6v4

See the new local space transform mode and updates to baking workflow in the 3D texturing tool. Now available on macOS again.

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2

Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.

Friday, March 27th, 2020

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0

Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.

Friday, February 1st, 2019

Esri releases CityEngine 2026

Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new tools for creating street layouts, and a Python 3 API.

Monday, July 13th, 2026

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Houdini

Houdini edition of the renderer gets support for relighting Gaussian splats, better volume rendering, tighter integration with Solaris.

Sunday, July 12th, 2026

Zibra AI launches new real-time VFX technology ZibraGDS

New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.

Thursday, July 9th, 2026

Foundry releases Nuke 17.1 in open beta

Check out the changes to the compositing software, including relighting Gaussian splats and Hydra 2.0 support in the 3D viewer.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2026

Autodesk releases Arnold 7.5.2 with 3D Gaussian Splatting

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including the option to relight and render imported 3D Gaussian Splats.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026

10 things CG artists need to know about Unreal Engine 6

The industry-changing real-time tool is about to enter a new era. Discover what UE6 means for games, VFX and visualization artists.

Sunday, June 21st, 2026

Unreal Engine 5.8 is here: discover its 5 key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the latest features in Unreal Engine, from Mesh Terrain to MetaHuman Crowds, by way of new rigging and animation tools.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2026

Sneak peek: Houdini 22

See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, from updates to Copernicus to tools to train, relight and rig Gaussian Splats.

Monday, June 8th, 2026