Foundry ships Katana 5.0
Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
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Autodesk ships RV 2022
VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
SideFX releases Houdini 19
Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.2
Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and animation software, including new scaling controls for the Solidify deformer.
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin
Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.1
3D animation software gets new global search feature, tools for authoring interactive tutorials, and updates to the deformer system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
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
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2022
Motion-capture editing tool gets support for Python 3 and quite a range of workflow improvements.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Foundry reveals its 2021 Mari product roadmap
3D texturing app to get Python 3 support, new USD workflows and updated brush engine, but macOS edition cancelled.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
Foundry ships Modo 15.0
Iterative update to the modelling and rendering app overhauls MeshFusion and the Animation Editor, adds viewport depth of field.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
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
Bondware ships Poser 12
First major update to the figure posing and animation software in five years adds RTX-accelerated ray tracing, CPU render denoising.
Monday, February 1st, 2021
Autodesk ships RV 2021
Image viewer and shot playback tool for VFX and animation gets support for Python 3, new long-term Available Previous Versions.
Thursday, November 5th, 2020