Unity acquires Weta Digital for $1.6 billion
Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
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Foundry ships Modo 15.2
3D modelling and rendering app gets new Primitive Slice tool and render-time Boolean system. Perpetual licences discontinued.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing
See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
Get started with Houdini's Pyro FX toolset
New two-part Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides a detailed guide to Houdini smoke and fire simulations.
Saturday, November 6th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for SketchUp Update 2
SketchUp renderer gets new scattering and decal systems, big update to real-time render mode V-Ray Vision.
Friday, November 5th, 2021
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1
GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap
See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 22.0
Compositing software gets long-awaited Multi-Frame Rendering system, new performance profiling tools, update to Cinema 4D Lite.
Wednesday, October 27th, 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
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2
3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.10.3 and Affinity Designer 1.10.3
Image-editing and vector design apps get 'stunning' speed boosts on Apple M1 Pro and Max chips.
Monday, October 25th, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0
Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
Blender 3.1 to introduce native Metal support in Cycles
New macOS backend unveiled as Apple becomes a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021