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First formal USD spec marks a step towards making USD an ISO-ratified cross-industry standard. See what it means for CG software developers.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.

Thursday, December 19th, 2024

Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Handy plugin converts Cinema 4D rigs, materials and lights into their Unity equivalents for real-time use.

Tuesday, March 10th, 2020

FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

Handy add-on creates patches or scatter objects from hi-res models; rebuilds point cloud scan data.

Friday, January 18th, 2019

Open-source app syncs geometry, lights and cameras between Unity and 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and MotionBuilder.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry.

Thursday, July 13th, 2017

Updated, sneak peek at version 2.6: Neat script lets users create hair as polys, then convert to Maya Hair.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

Control armies via natural language with the crowd simulation tool's new human language logic system.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.

Thursday, November 14th, 2013

If you're exporting to Unity, at least. For FBX files, the new Extension release ups the limit to 65,000 polys.

Thursday, October 24th, 2013