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keyframe animation

See the the new features in the GPU renderers, including better USD support and the option to import and render skinned characters.

Monday, April 14th, 2025

Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including initial USD support and a complete new animation system.

Monday, December 23rd, 2024

Read our run-down of the key changes in the largest ever update to Houdini, from character animation to rendering and machine learning.

Thursday, November 9th, 2023

Interesting new app lets users create custom game content from an online library of CC0 assets.

Friday, June 23rd, 2023

Innovative character animation app gets revamped animation layer system, neat animatable sculpt tool.

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

Maya-friendly character animation software adds USD import, audio and video editing, new Picker Tool.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Puppet animation software gets workflow updates including auto-recovery of damaged project files.

Monday, May 10th, 2021

Neat next-gen animation tool aims to rethink character work for VFX and feature animation pipelines.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2020

See the new features in Adobe's tool for generating real-time puppet animation from video footage.

Tuesday, May 19th, 2020

JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.

Monday, May 4th, 2020

Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.

Friday, January 3rd, 2020