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Updated: Nekki's unusual animation software gets new rigging tools, updated AI-based AutoPosing system.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

Check out our handy run-down of the new simulation, graphics and AR tools announced at this week's Unity user event.

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Latest beta focuses on editing tools like the new 'Boring Detector', but there are grading and FX updates.

Friday, August 9th, 2019

Grading and editing app gets AI-driven 'Neural Engine' to automate repetitive tasks, new effects tools.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

VFX and finishing software gets new AI-based sky extraction system, plus the option to extract mattes from motion vector data.

Thursday, July 25th, 2019

Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Maya crowd simulation tool now supports a wider range of character rigs for crowd agents. Viewport and rendering performance improved.

Thursday, June 13th, 2019

New blue sky research initiative to explore 'less clumsy' ways to create CG images via machine learning.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.

Tuesday, April 16th, 2019

Free GPU renderer gets support for AI denoising, adaptive sampling, hair rendering. New versions for 3ds Max & Maya, too.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019

3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019