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New 'industry cloud' for media and entertainment will enter early access in January 2024. Read our FAQs on what we know about it so far.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023

Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

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

Thursday, November 2nd, 2023

New 17-inch and 22-inch 4K, 120Hz HDR pen displays are aimed at high-end CG work like virtual production.

Monday, October 30th, 2023

Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, and the current state of the Octane 2023 product roadmap.

Thursday, October 26th, 2023

See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.

Thursday, October 19th, 2023

'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Check out the new features in the compositing and editorial software, including native Apple Silicon and OpenAssetIO support.

Friday, October 13th, 2023

Experimental automatic object-replacement system is an 'early look' at how generative AI could be used in tools like After Effects.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

New AI-trained object-based image-editing engine will 'revolutionize the way we interact with Adobe products'.

Monday, October 9th, 2023

Check out the upcoming features in the digital sculpting software, including a neat new Replay system, and integrated Cinema 4D noises.

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

New Node Tools system will let artists package groups of Geometry Nodes into standard Edit Mode menu commands.

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

Latest public beta lets users render 3D models directly inside the compositing software, using the new Advanced 3D renderer.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023