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Katana

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

New version of the renderer adds native Apple Silicon support and improves USD workflow. 3ds Max, C4D and Maya plugins updated.

Monday, November 21st, 2022

See what's new in AMD's pro GPU drivers, and in tools like Clarisse, Redshift and Omniverse Create.

Thursday, October 6th, 2022

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022

Check out the new features in this sizeable update to the USD-native shot layout and look dev solution.

Monday, July 4th, 2022

Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.

Monday, June 27th, 2022

Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

Sales of the Modo and Katana editions of the renderer have ended, but support continues until December 2022.

Friday, January 21st, 2022

Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021