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Cinema 4D

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine gets a complete traffic simulation system, and a new viewport renderer.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Big update to the Cineware for Unreal plugin makes it possible to transfer rigged and animated characters to Unreal Engine 5.5.

Sunday, April 6th, 2025

Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

3D animation and motion graphics app gets integrated Spline Modifiers and updates to particle simulation. Liquid simulation 'coming soon'.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

'First ever path-tracing solution' for virtual production lets studios render existing V-Ray assets on LED walls in real time for in-camera VFX.

Monday, March 31st, 2025

Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including toon shading on GPU, and new HTML viewer for render statistics.

Friday, March 28th, 2025

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

Major update to Dimension 5's real-time visualization software adds experimental path tracing system. Check out the other new features.

Thursday, March 6th, 2025

Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.

Thursday, February 13th, 2025

Update to Epic Games' free app provides more control over scans, with the option to create 1-million-poly models with 8K textures.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025