Sneak peek: Houdini 20
See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
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Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2024.1
Latest update to the 3D design and animation app is mainly a bugfix release, but there are performance improvements to MoGraph.
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0.7
Popular real-time smoke and fire simulator gets support for ground plane shadows, and initial support for importing skinned meshes.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 23.10
Check out the new features in the open-source game engine and new third-party add-ons like this volumetric cloudscapes system.
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
Adobe ships After Effects 24.0
Check out the new features in the compositing software, including the AI-powered Next-Gen Roto Brush and expanded OCIO support.
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Adobe launches new Image 2 AI model in Firefly
Check out the new features in Adobe's next-gen generative AI model, now powering Firefly's updated Text to Image system.,
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Nick Kallen ships Plasticity 1.3
Sizeable update to the popular lightweight NURBS modeller adds radial menus, better filleting - and a new live link to Blender.
Monday, October 9th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.4
Check out the latest changes to renderer, including better toon shading and faster rendering of mesh lights.
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
Autodesk adds MaterialX support to USD for 3ds Max 0.5
Update to the USD integration plugin makes it possible to author, import or export MaterialX materials from 3ds Max.
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
See the new ZBrush features from ZBrush Summit 2023
Check out the upcoming features in the digital sculpting software, including a neat new Replay system, and integrated Cinema 4D noises.
Monday, October 2nd, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer becomes first DCC app to support NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 and its AI-trained Ray Reconstruction denoiser.
Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Boris FX ships Optics 2024
Photoshop plugin and standalone app for applying cinematic effects to still images gets new filters from Sapphire and Continuum.
Monday, September 18th, 2023
Wonder Studio now does standalone AI motion capture
Check out the AI-based VFX tool's new option to extract body and hand mocap data from video, and its new credit-based pricing.
Friday, September 15th, 2023