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R&D

Browser-based generative AI platform could soon generate complete 360° game environments from text prompts or sketches.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2023

See footage of a pre-alpha build of EmberGen creator's hotly tipped upcoming real-time liquid simulator.

Monday, July 3rd, 2023

Neat control system lets users edit parametric models intelligently by dragging on them in the viewport.

Wednesday, August 25th, 2021

Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021

New R&D tech could help users of apps like Adobe Dimension lay out 3D scenes in real time with realistic gravity and collisions.

Monday, October 26th, 2020

See Adobe's latest 3D research: from parametric modeling to a new real-time physically based renderer.

Friday, July 31st, 2020

See breakdowns of 10 key movies, TV series and ads created in V-Ray from Chaos Group's 2019 showreel.

Monday, August 12th, 2019

See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

New blue sky research initiative to explore 'less clumsy' ways to create CG images via machine learning.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

Cuts to be made by cancellation of entire projects rather than trimming product teams across the board.

Thursday, November 30th, 2017

'I'm not dead, just doing R&D', explains developer in blog post on terrain generator's dev build 3014.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2017

Work-in-progress tech will let users do asset or animation reviews in virtual reality, directly inside Modo.

Friday, February 10th, 2017