5 key features in Blender 3.4
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
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Autodesk releases USD for 3ds Max 0.3
Third beta of the plugin adds a USD Stage Object for referencing entire USD scenes inside 3ds Max.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
Tutorial: Creating Creature Fur Using XGen & Arnold
Create production-quality grooms with Maya's XGen toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Monday, October 24th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp
SketchUp edition of the renderer now supports lights and materials from visualisation app Enscape.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in this major update to the renderer, several unique to the C4D edition.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya
Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Download Animal Logic's free ALab USD production scene
Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.
Friday, August 5th, 2022
Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 7.4.3 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin gets support for V-Ray 6, plus new options for replacing scene objects by name.
Thursday, July 14th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max
Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Scene Group ships Cavalry 1.3
Check out the new features in the next-gen motion graphics software, including new shaders and integrated JavaScript scripting.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Get Antoine Bagattini's free Blender add-on BagaPie V6
Check out the new procedural modelling and scattering tools in the popular 'all-in-one' add-on.
Monday, March 21st, 2022
Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022