Blender Foundation unveils the Animation 2025 Project
Ambitious three-year plan to revamp Blender's rigging and animation tools begins next year.
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
release schedule
Crytek ships CryEngine 5.7
Long-awaited update to the game engine is smaller than first planned, but features updates to Scaleform and the GamePlatform plugin.
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
Maxon ships Cinema 4D S24
Subscriber-only update to the 3D animation software adds new asset browser and scene manager, and new physics-enabled layout tools.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2019 LTS
Latest Long Term Support of the game engine will continue to get critical fixes for another two years.
Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
Maxon ships Cinema 4D S22
First subscriber-only update to Cinema 4D overhauls the UV unwrapping tools and rolls out Maxon's new viewport architecture.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
Check out the Blender 3.0 and LTS product roadmap
Next big update to the open-source 3D software due in 2021, with long term support releases every year.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Allegorithmic stops 'major numbered versions' of its tools
Big annual releases of Substance Designer and Painter replaced with continuous updates, but you can still own outright.
Monday, May 8th, 2017