Autodesk ships Maya 2022
Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
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Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0
Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.5
Landscape-generation software gets OpenColorIO support, plus better support for PBR workflows.
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021
See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2
Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Get free VFX image viewer and playback tool DJV 2
Ex-Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's shot review tool is engineered for serious VFX and animation work.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019