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rendering

Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026

Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation app, including a new rich text system and built-in video transcoding.

Saturday, January 24th, 2026

Check out the new features in this major update to the GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool and its new lightweight edition.

Thursday, January 15th, 2026

Discover real-world visual effects production workflows with The Gnomon Workshop's Houdini character FX masterclass.

Saturday, January 10th, 2026

See the key specs for the high-end APUs, and what we know about their likely price and performance in CG apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

Poser 14 is out

Update to the veteran figure-posing software streamlines materials and environment workflow, but removes the Cloth Room and macOS edition.

Monday, January 5th, 2026

See how NVIDIA's top-of-the-range Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs performed in real-world tests in popular DCC applications.

Wednesday, December 17th, 2025

Check out the changes to the Maya edition of the renderer, including a new displacement material, and a viewport live link to Vantage.

Saturday, December 13th, 2025

Check out the latest features in the Blender edition of the renderer, including macOS support, and a new distributed rendering system.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.

Sunday, December 7th, 2025

Create a portfolio-worthy matte painting in Photoshop, Nuke and Blender with The Gnomon Workshop's new masterclass.

Saturday, December 6th, 2025