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Pixar releases RenderMan 26

Check out the changes to the heavyweight production renderer, including updates to XPU, and interactive AI denoising in Blender.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

Unity discontinues the Ziva products

Unity ends sales of Maya tissue simulation plugin Ziva VFX, real-time toolset Ziva RT, and facial-rigging service Ziva Face Trainer.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024

Nekki releases Cascadeur 2024.1

Big update to the AI-assisted animation software adds animation retargeting and 'unbaking' systems, plus new pricing model

Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

Sneak peek: Chaos's new AI technologies

Check out the tech in development at Chaos Next, the firm's new 'AI lab', ranging from PBR material generation to 3D set extension.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.3

Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.

Friday, January 26th, 2024

InstaMAT Studio is now available

Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.

Thursday, January 25th, 2024

Sneak peek: Cascadeur for mobile

Check out Nekki's preview video of the phone and tablet edition of its AI-assisted character animation software, due in beta later this year.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Boris FX releases Continuum 2024

Effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps get new AI-based video denoising and upresing tools, new audio visualizer effect.

Monday, November 27th, 2023