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Now in beta: read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software, from Grease Pencil 3 to updates to Eevee and Cycles.

Thursday, October 10th, 2024

Check out the new features in the next major update to the renderer, including 3D Gaussian Splatting, and updates to V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024

Discover the new features in the latest version of the GPU renderer - and which features are now scheduled for future releases.

Saturday, September 21st, 2024

Check out the new features in Autodesk's production renderer, including new controls for tonemapping toon-shaded renders.

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

3D modeling and rendering app gets updates to weight painting, and to the Boolean and Array modifiers. Check out the other changes here.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

Cinema 4D renderer gets bridge to Enscape, live link to Vantage, support for MaterialX materials, and updates to V-Ray GPU.

Wednesday, December 13th, 2023

Sizeable update to the production renderer adds MaterialX support, new Enscape bridge, and updates to V-Ray GPU and Chaos Scatter.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

3D modelling and rendering app gets new OSL maps to create organic noise and randomise UVs.

Thursday, December 8th, 2022

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

Clarisse's much-anticipated hybrid CPU/GPU renderer available via early access builds of Clarisse 5.5.

Thursday, December 9th, 2021