Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles

Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

Pixologic ships ZBrush 2021

Big update to the digital sculpting tool adds complete cloth creation and soft body dynamics toolset. Check out all the features here.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020

Foundry unveils Katana 4.0

Big update to the lighting and look dev tool to add new 'artist-focused' lighting workflows, support for multiple simultaneous test renders.

Monday, August 10th, 2020

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0.4

Big update cuts render times on modern multi-core CPUs; adds new IPR window for 3ds Max users, and new Cinema 4D scattering system.

Thursday, August 6th, 2020

Sketchfab's models of the month: July 2020

See the month's best 3D models - including downloadable vehicles from Porsches to police cruisers.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020

Sneak peeks: Redshift RT and Redshift for Blender

Videos: see the GPU renderer's powerful real-time hybrid render engine and new Blender plugin.

Tuesday, July 28th, 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

Sneak peek: ZBrush 2021

See the new features in Pixologic's sculpting software, including better instancing and poly modeling - and an eye-catching set of cloth tools.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2020

Maxon unveils Project: Neutron

Check out the new node-based architecture coming to Cinema 4D in the next release, along with support for USD and Python 3.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Foundry ships Nuke 12.2, NukeX 12.2, Nuke Studio 12.2

Compositing and editorial tools get USD import, licence roaming, new synchronous shot review system.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 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

Marvelous Designer goes subscription-only

Sales of perpetual licences of the 3D clothing design tool to end with Marvelous Designer 10 this fall.

Monday, July 13th, 2020

SideFX 'backports' new features to Houdini 18.0

Can't wait for Houdini 18.5? Check out the neat new topology transfer and rendering options available in Houdini 18 today.

Wednesday, July 8th, 2020