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AI-based tool upscales images up to 600% without losing detail, including 3D renders. Includes new dedicated facial upscaling system.

Friday, May 20th, 2022

Inkscape 1.2 ships

Open-source vector design tool gets batch image export, support for multi-page documents, plus a lot of workflow improvements.

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

Intuitive NURBS modelling software gets new dark UI theme, SVG import/export, native M1 support. Now in beta for users of MoI 4.

Monday, May 16th, 2022

Open-source game engine gets new animation synthesis system, 'remixable materials', updates to the Atom renderer.

Friday, May 13th, 2022

GPU-accelerated sparse gaseous fluid solver gets new profiling tools. Native Metal support now in beta.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

Blender 3.1 ships

Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

New preview build of the VFX-industry-standard app adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

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