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macOS

Under-the-hood update to the library of effects for compositing and editing apps adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022

Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.

Thursday, January 13th, 2022

Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.

Thursday, December 30th, 2021

See what's new in this performance-focused update to Maxon's suite of After Effects plugins for common VFX tasks.

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021

Blender 3.0 ships

Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

See how the major rewrite of the renderer has evolved from initial alpha to its release in Blender 3.0 next week.

Thursday, November 25th, 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

Popular ZBrush brush manager goes back to being a free plugin. Now integrates directly into ZBrush.

Thursday, November 18th, 2021

Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021

3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021

Updated: digital painting software now natively supports Apple M1 processors, making brush performance 'up to 4.7x faster'.

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021