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Free non-commercial edition of ZBrush gets new sculpting brushes and now renders turntable movies.

Wednesday, May 19th, 2021

Check out the neat new animation features in the popular set of productivity-boosting Maya tools.

Saturday, May 8th, 2021

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

Updated: Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users can now run the renderer on Macs with M1 processors as well as AMD GPUs.

Friday, April 30th, 2021

New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

AWS's popular renderfarm manager now runs in Licence Free Mode on farms with 10 Render Workers.

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

Datasmith creator's unusual tool for turning 3ds Max, Blender and UE4 scenes into 'pseudo VR' gets new option to add interactive hotspots.

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

Godot 3.3 ships

Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Check out the major features coming up in the open-source 3D software in this year's Blender 2.93 and Blender 3.0 releases.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

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

Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.

Monday, April 12th, 2021