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Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.

Monday, February 17th, 2020

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

New integration plugin lets users stream data to Blender from Rokoko's low-cost mocap suits.

Friday, February 7th, 2020

Shattering and dynamics plugin gets speed boosts to shatter tools, including 3x boost to previews.

Thursday, February 6th, 2020

Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya modelling, layout and rigging add-ons, including 11 new tools.

Wednesday, February 5th, 2020

Godot 3.2 ships

Leading open-source game engine gets revamped shader editor, glTF 2.0 and FBX import, and a new pseudo-3D system for 2D games.

Thursday, January 30th, 2020

Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets new HUD mode, plus improved performance on older hardware.

Thursday, January 30th, 2020

Check out the new features in ftrack's lightweight cloud-based shot review and approval system.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2020

Unity 2019.3 ships

Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

Versatile hard-surface modelling toolkit brings workflow in Houdini more in line with other DCC tools.

Monday, January 20th, 2020

First update to the unusual sketch-based modelling tool in six years adds new mesh deformation and Boolean features, plus SVG import.

Saturday, December 28th, 2019

Shot layout and look dev tool gets new firefly filtering system, better handling of Light Path Expressions.

Friday, December 27th, 2019

Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019