Maxon ships Cinema 4D R23
Major update to Cinema 4D adds new character animation tools, better UV editing, and integrates the $399 Magic Bullet Looks suite.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
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Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.90
Latest update to the open-source 3D app brings major changes to sculpting, rendering and simulation.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles
Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.
Monday, August 24th, 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
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Check out open-source auto-retopology tool AutoRemesher
New app from Dust3D developer Jeremy Hu turns source meshes into uniform all-quad geometry.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Download four free high-resolution UV checkermaps
Get Maurus Loeffel's custom UV checkermaps, plus the Illustrator file to create your own designs.
Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Microsoft becomes latest tech giant to back Blender
Strings-free €30,000/year donation will help pay for new Blender staff - now including non-developers.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Foundry ships Nuke 12.2, NukeX 12.2, Nuke Studio 12.2
Compositing and editorial tools get USD import, licence roaming, new synchronous shot review system.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
Apple ditches Intel CPUs in Macs in favour of its own chips
See what the move to Apple Silicon will mean for CG tools like Maya, Photoshop, Blender and Octane X.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.83 LTS
The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020