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New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.

Friday, September 6th, 2019

Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets new foam and white water system; improved memory usage.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

'Really real-time' physically based renderer gets support for 360° spherical and overscan rendering.

Friday, June 21st, 2019

Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019