Maxon ships VFX Suite 2.1
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
macOS
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
Otoy unveils Octane 2022
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
Check out the new features in Blender's Cycles X renderer
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
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1
New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Download free ZBrush brush organiser XMD ToolBox 3.0
Popular ZBrush brush manager goes back to being a free plugin. Now integrates directly into ZBrush.
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
Blender 3.0's Cycles X now runs on AMD GPUs
Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1
3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Corel updates Painter 2022
Updated: digital painting software now natively supports Apple M1 processors, making brush performance 'up to 4.7x faster'.
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1
GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.10.3 and Affinity Designer 1.10.3
Image-editing and vector design apps get 'stunning' speed boosts on Apple M1 Pro and Max chips.
Monday, October 25th, 2021
ArmorPaint 0.8 ships
Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Blender 3.1 to introduce native Metal support in Cycles
New macOS backend unveiled as Apple becomes a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021