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Cool new character animation plugin rigs anything from bipeds to creepy crawlies in a few clicks.

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.

Monday, June 20th, 2016

Game engine gets new fur, cloth and clear coat shaders, plus support for texture streaming and Nvidia's APEX real-time cloth simulation system.

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

3ds Max multiphysics plugin to get new solvers for organic tissue, also available in a new extension to the Bullet physics library.

Thursday, May 26th, 2016

Allegorithmic's free add-on lets users edit textures in Substance format using Houdini's native tools.

Thursday, May 26th, 2016

Now shipping: Long-awaited update to GPU renderer to add volumetrics, support for deep pixel compositing.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Neat free tool generates AO, cavity, curvature, normal and other maps for use in game engines. Handles dense ZBrush sculpts.

Monday, May 9th, 2016

Support for CPU rendering, skinned characters and Brigade path tracing - plus OctaneImager, an entire new compositing app.

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Videos: see all the new features in action, from tools for games artists to new UV and UDIM workflows.

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Source code of fur system used on Call of Duty: Ghosts out now. New CGU/GPU rigid body system in beta.

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

Beautiful Ninja Theory-created demo showcases new open-world tech in the UE4 and Unity lighting system.

Thursday, March 17th, 2016

3D painting tool gets Iray renderer integrated inside, new Clone and Smudge tools, new Linux edition.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

Real-time tool for streaming, cleaning and retargeting mocap data gets built-in full-body rig editor.

Friday, March 11th, 2016

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