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deep compositing

Update to industry-standard renderer adds new interactive raytracing options, deep compositing tools.

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Weta's 'deep compositing' tech to be incorporated in next release of HDR file format and supported in Nuke.

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Updated for Beta 2: 3D texture painting software gets new Tri-Planar Tiled and Hex Tile nodes, plus support for A/B comparisons.

Thursday, September 24th, 2026

Updated for Alpha 3: next major version of the GPU renderer can now bake SDFs to meshes, to use as proxy geometry in simulations.

Thursday, September 24th, 2026

Watch the studio's breakdown of a blazing building, with simulated fire, smoke and particles, from the finale of the Disney+ 'wrong-com'.

Thursday, September 24th, 2026

Adobe buys pioneering developer of AI image enhancement and upscaling tools. Read our FAQs on what the deal means for CG artists.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026

Check out the studio's VFX breakdown for the spectacular elemental duels from Season 2 of the fantasy action-adventure series.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026

Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, like animation library builder Animcraft, game engine Unigine, and OctaneRender.

Sunday, September 20th, 2026