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RenderMan 27

Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Compatible with Blender, Houdini, Katana and Maya.

Saturday, February 28th, 2026

'Most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight production renderer makes RenderMan XPU ready for final-frame output.

Friday, November 14th, 2025

Digital painting and animation tool gets new accompanying web-based apps, including a complete low-poly 3D landscape generator.

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

SDK for games and CG software developers now includes AMD's Redstone AI rendering technologies, including the new AI denoiser.

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

Digital sculpting software gets its sixth consecutive annual update with no new features listed, but the price of annual subscriptions is up.

Friday, March 27th, 2026

Rendering and visualization software gets support for OpenPBR materials in USD files, and updates to the rendering and animation toolsets.

Friday, March 27th, 2026

New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the Maya fluid dynamics plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

Thursday, March 26th, 2026

New features in the character animation and mocap-editing software include new quaternion math tools for complex rigs.

Thursday, March 26th, 2026