Autodesk Standard Surface

Check out the latest changes to the 3D modeling and rendering app, including updates to retopology, shading and animation.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

3D modeling and animation tool gets updates to the ML Deformer and liquid simulation in Bifrost. Check out all the new features here.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024

3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes

Monday, December 4th, 2023

Wide-ranging update to the 3D animation tool adds new LookdevX toolset, gel simulation in Bifrost, and native Apple Silicon support.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

3D modelling and rendering software gets glTF support, plus updates to the Physical Material, retopology tools and auto-backup.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022

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

Thursday, December 9th, 2021

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

Updated, new demo: Check out the FAQs for Clarisse iFX's next-gen CPU/GPU render engine, and see how it performs on gaming GPUs.

Friday, September 17th, 2021