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Compositing app gets revamped UI and more GPU acceleration, but the free edition has been dropped.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Grading and editing app gets AI-driven 'Neural Engine' to automate repetitive tasks, new effects tools.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

Watch a one-minute run-down of the award-winning shorts and R&D projects used to test Blender 2.80.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.

Saturday, August 3rd, 2019

Game engine gets new PhysX Force Region component, plus the option to interrupt one character animation transition with another.

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

All-in-one editing, compositing and effects software integrates Foundry's 3D camera tracker, also used in NukeX and Nuke Studio.

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Big update introduces new visual programming system for physics simulations, with new fire, smoke and snow solvers.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Unity 2019.2 ships

Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019