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Light Painting

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design tool, including the option to LightPaint the sun into the sky.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2025

Big update to the UE5 product and portfolio rendering plugin also lets you generate virtual scan data for use in 3D Gaussian Splatting apps.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025

Updated: neat plugin formerly known as MetaShoot creates portfolio renders and visualizations in a few clicks. See what's new in Atlux λ 1.1.

Thursday, March 14th, 2024

Check out the new features in the material authoring software, improving workflow when creating and editing node graphs.

Friday, December 12th, 2025

Check out the features in the latest beta build of Nuke, also including a new BigCat node for training larger custom AI models on VFX data.

Friday, December 12th, 2025

Check out the latest features in the Blender edition of the renderer, including macOS support, and a new distributed rendering system.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Check out the new features in the desktop and VR sculpting tool, including a reworked 3D gizmo and an eye-catching Elastic Move tool.

Wednesday, December 10th, 2025