animation

Foundry ships Katana 5.0

Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Autodesk ships RV 2022

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

Tuesday, December 14th, 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

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.3

3D modeling and rendering tool gets Per Viewport Filtering options, further updates to Smart Extrude.

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

Unity acquires SyncSketch

Games tools firm buys artist-friendly browser-based shot review system used on Oscar-nominated animated feature Over the Moon.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021