Blender 3.0 ships
Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
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5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021
See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
Otoy unveils Octane 2022
Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
Check out the new features in Blender's Cycles X renderer
See how the major rewrite of the renderer has evolved from initial alpha to its release in Blender 3.0 next week.
Thursday, November 25th, 2021
Adobe ships Substance 3D Stager 1.1
Scene layout and rendering app gets key workflow improvements - and a new $150 perpetual licence.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
Discover your Complete Photogrammetry Workflow
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides an essential guide to 3D scanning workflow for production.
Monday, November 22nd, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.3 for Blender and Maya
Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Blender 3.0's Cycles X now runs on AMD GPUs
Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Godot 3.4 ships
Open-source game engine gets better tonemapping, new UI theme editor, glTF export for editing scenes in DCC apps like Blender.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
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
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