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Unity releases Unity 6

Long-awaited major release of the game engine ships. Check out its new features, new release schedule, and new pricing and licensing.

Friday, October 18th, 2024

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025.3

3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Inkscape 1.4 is out

Open-source vector design tool gets improvements to workflow with filters, fonts and color palettes, and support for Affinity Designer files.

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

Adobe releases After Effects 25.0

Compositing software gets 'more modern', legible interface design, and 'decluttered' 3D model import. See all of the changes here.

Monday, October 14th, 2024

Adobe releases Photoshop 26.0

Image-editing software gets new AI object removal and generative AI features, plus native support for OpenColorIO and ACES.

Monday, October 14th, 2024

Marmoset releases Toolbag 5.0

Major update to the real-time lighting and look dev tool adds support for UDIM workflows, interactive baking, hybrid rendering.

Monday, October 14th, 2024

Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Open 3D Foundation releases O3DE 24.09

Sizeable update to the open-source game engine adds a new mobile render pipeline, and lets you create games without a C++ compiler.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2024