Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D Update 2
Cinema 4D renderer gets new texture randomisation options, light instancing, native support for Apple M1 processors.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
new features
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 23.5
See what's new in the the sub-$100 image editor, including new image stitching and mesh gradient tools.
Monday, December 6th, 2021
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
5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021
See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.
Thursday, December 2nd, 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
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2022 VS and RS
UV unwrapping software gets new UV packing workflow better suited to current UDIM-based pipelines.
Thursday, November 25th, 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
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.3
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Animation Cycles system for seamlessly looping any character movement.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
Adobe ships Substance 3D Stager 1.1
Scene layout and rendering app gets key workflow improvements - and a new $150 perpetual licence.
Wednesday, November 24th, 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
Adobe ships Substance 3D Painter 7.4
3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Adobe ships Substance 3D Designer 11.3
Material authoring app's neat new particle nodes open up workflows from scattering to 3D plant design.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.3 for Blender and Maya
Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021