Sneak peek: Houdini 21
Read our list of 300+ new features due in the next version of Houdini - from Neural Point Surface for liquids to the Otis organic tissue solver.
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
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Animation studio Laika joins the Academy Software Foundation
Oscar-nominated studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings joins industry body promoting open-source tech.
Saturday, August 2nd, 2025
Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.3
Check out the new features in the renderer, including an Inference imager for applying machine learning models to stylize output.
Saturday, July 26th, 2025
Cebas releases thinkingParticles 7.4 for 3ds Max
Check out the latest features in the particle and physics plugin, including the new Explosion Tool and 160+ new scripting functions.
Friday, May 16th, 2025
Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.
Friday, April 18th, 2025
Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.1
Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including toon shading on GPU, and new HTML viewer for render statistics.
Friday, March 28th, 2025
5 key features in Blender 4.4
Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.
Tuesday, March 18th, 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
Get 6 free smoke and fire effects sequences from FX BackPack
Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.
Sunday, January 12th, 2025
Pixar releases RenderMan 26.3
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 19.1
Update to the 3D compositing app extends USD and OCIO workflow, and adds new options for toggling between inputs in compositions.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 19.1
Discover the key features for VFX artists and colorists in the free grading and editing software and its $295 Studio edition.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2024.1
3D modeling and animation software gets new tools for copying and pasting animations, and for controlling depth of field in renders.
Thursday, September 19th, 2024