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Next-gen terrain design tool now integrates with Houdini. Edit Gaea terrain in Houdini or software compatible with Houdini Engine.

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

Next-gen material-creation tool gets new features for organising materials, including file tagging and syncing to local disks.

Saturday, August 10th, 2019

Latest beta focuses on editing tools like the new 'Boring Detector', but there are grading and FX updates.

Friday, August 9th, 2019

Compositing app gets revamped UI and more GPU acceleration, but the free edition has been dropped.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Grading and editing app gets AI-driven 'Neural Engine' to automate repetitive tasks, new effects tools.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Avatar VFX producer's cloud-based tool for planning and tracking budgets for visual effects projects adds support for episodic series.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

See the month's best 3D models, including this Storm King character, available to download for free.

Wednesday, August 7th, 2019

Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

VFX house MagicPictures Studio's OpenVDB-based meshing and Bullet physics tools now available as 3ds Max plugins.

Monday, August 5th, 2019

AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.

Saturday, August 3rd, 2019

Game engine gets new PhysX Force Region component, plus the option to interrupt one character animation transition with another.

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

All-in-one editing, compositing and effects software integrates Foundry's 3D camera tracker, also used in NukeX and Nuke Studio.

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019