Substance 3D Designer to get new Hydra viewport
Change will let artists use apps like RenderMan or OctaneRender as viewport renderers inside Designer. Native MaterialX support also due.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
look development
ArmorPaint 0.9 ships
Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.
Friday, September 8th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Autodesk announces new generative AI tools in Maya
New AI services will let artists generate materials, textures or HDRIs inside Maya's LookdevX.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.06
Now shipping: update to real-time rendering toolkit extends OpenUSD support, adds support for rendering EXR sequences.
Monday, August 7th, 2023
ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk announce OpenPBR
New sub-project of MaterialX will let artists transfer materials seamlessly between Adobe and Autodesk apps.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
J Cube releases Multiverse | USD 8.2 for Maya
New features in the USD-native layout and look dev app include shader network transfer to Katana.
Monday, July 24th, 2023
Adobe's Firefly AI art toolset: everything you need to know
Updated: set of experimental AI art tools now accepts text prompts in over 100 worldwide languages.
Friday, July 14th, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Matt Puchala releases Axiom 3.1 for Houdini
Check out the new features in the popular GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver for Houdini.
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
Autodesk ships Maya 2024.1 and Maya Creative 2024.1
3D animation apps get new Hydra for Maya render delegate, plus updates to the LookdevX toolset.
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2024.1
3D modelling and rendering app gets improvements to the Boolean modifier and to animation workflow.
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8
Real-time lighting app gets neat new Scrim Light type mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023