See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender

New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.

Monday, December 13th, 2021

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2

Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Isotropix releases Angie in early access

Clarisse's much-anticipated hybrid CPU/GPU renderer available via early access builds of Clarisse 5.5.

Thursday, December 9th, 2021

Autodesk ships Maya 2022.3

Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Blender 3.0 ships

Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2021

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from Arcane fan art to a downloadable kit of parts for steampunk buildings.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2021

Otoy unveils Octane 2022

Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Autodesk acquires LoUPE

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2

Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.

Friday, November 12th, 2021

Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1

3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021

See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing

See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021