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Maya

Check out the new features in Foundry's heavyweight story development software for VFX and feature animation.

Friday, October 24th, 2025

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.

Thursday, October 16th, 2025

Promising new tool based on the Storm multiphysics simulator exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG apps.

Monday, October 13th, 2025

Big update to the motion design software adds a planar tracker, chroma keying, and support for file referencing to create precomps.

Monday, October 13th, 2025

Update to the popular effects plugin makes it easier to exchange simulation caches with Houdini, Bifrost, EmberGen and LiquiGen.

Monday, October 6th, 2025

New $900 14-inch Android tablet works as both a standalone drawing tablet - and potentially, as a wireless pen display, for both 2D and 3D art.

Saturday, October 4th, 2025

Popular hair plugin for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine is now available free to educational institutions and students worldwide.

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Check out the changes to the kitbash asset library's browser app, plus the free 3D vehicles, models and materials available through it.

Sunday, September 21st, 2025

3D animation software for VFX and games to get new 'agentic AI partner' Autodesk Assistant and AI lip-sync tool FaceAnimator.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2025

Ambitious start-up's €240,000/year is the biggest contribution to Blender of any GPU manufacturer - before it has even shipped a card.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025

Check out the new features in the UV unwrapping and packing app, including a new Scene Outliner, and support for GPU packing.

Monday, September 15th, 2025

Check out the changes in this sizeable update to the production renderer, including the new Redshift Sun & Sky and Clouds objects.

Thursday, September 11th, 2025

No changes expected to pricing or support, and both brands continue to operate under their original names. Find full details here.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2025