Download the free edition of RenderMan 25.2
Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Now includes RenderMan XPU.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Left Angle launches Autograph Creator
Indie artists and small studios get new lower-cost edition of the next-gen motion design and VFX tool.
Monday, March 27th, 2023
Stability.ai releases its Stable Diffusion add-on for Blender
Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.
Monday, March 6th, 2023
SideFX releases Houdini for Apple Silicon
New build of the procedural 3D software with native support for Apple's M1 and M2 chips is now production-ready.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
These free AI add-ons create PBR materials inside Blender
Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Autodesk releases Open RV
The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Blackmagic Design ships DaVinci Resolve for iPad
Video editing, colour grading and effects software now available for iPad and iPad Pro, although there are some limitations.
Friday, December 23rd, 2022
Polycam 3.0 released
Check out the new features in the popular LIDAR scanning and photogrammetry app, available for iOS, Android and as an online tool.
Monday, December 19th, 2022
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.3
AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Reallusion ships AccuRig 1.1
Free tool automatically generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new time-saving symmetry options.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
Download the free Corona renderer plugin for Blender
Updated: community-made BCorona plugin now supports Blender's displacement modifier.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Omniverse Machinima gets new Audio2Gesture system
Free app for creating animation for game cinematics now generates body movements from speech.
Friday, November 11th, 2022