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Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps.

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Unique tool for retopologising facial and full-body scan data gets accurate new BlendWrapping mode, new sculpting brushes.

Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.

Friday, March 29th, 2019

Material authoring software gets PBR Render node, faster texture baking on Nvidia's new RTX GPUs.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Popular suite of 250+ add-on tools for Foundry's 3D painting software now updated to support Mari 4.x.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Big VFX-focused update to the material authoring tool adds UDIM workflow, 30% speed boost when opening large assets.

Monday, March 12th, 2018

Workflow-focused update gives the texture-painting app a decluttered new UI and better interoperability with other key VFX pipeline tools.

Wednesday, December 6th, 2017

Intriguing new After Effects and Premiere Pro plugin enables users to apply 16 stylised procedural effects to 360-degree VR footage.

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Videos: Update to texture-painting tool makes the node graph more intuitive to use, adds new non-destructive Bake Point node.

Friday, December 16th, 2016