Sneak peek: Houdini 20.5
See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
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Sneak peek: Vector Displacement Maps in Substance 3D Painter
Get a glimpse at some of the new features in development for the 3D texture painting software, from Substance 3D Painter 10.1 onwards.
Friday, June 7th, 2024
Sneak peek: Chaos's new AI technologies
Check out the tech in development at Chaos Next, the firm's new 'AI lab', ranging from PBR material generation to 3D set extension.
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
Sneak peek: RTX ray tracing in Substance 3D Modeler
Check out the upcoming features in Adobe's digital sculpting software, like real-time ray traced lighting.
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
Sneak peek: new GPU renderer U-Render for Maya
See the long-awaited Maya edition of the real-time renderer in action on a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU.
Monday, September 26th, 2022
Sneak peek: Substance 3D Sampler's 3D scanning tools
Check out the material authoring app's highly automated new 'best in class' photogrammetry toolset.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Substance 3D Painter will soon export .sbsar files
Sneak peek: see all of the new features due in the October update to Adobe's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Sneak peek: Sculptron's crazy new cloth sculpting tools
Check out the eye-catching cloth brush and wrinkle deformer due in the GPU-based sculpting app.
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
Sneak peeks: Blender's upcoming Claymation add-on
Create virtual claymation with this neat new plugin from the devs of Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Chaos Czech previews Corona Renderer 7
Check out the new features due in the next major update to the 3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer.
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances
Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Sneak peek: Chaos Group's R&D work on V-Ray's VRayMtl
Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
Sneak peek: the Deform Stack in Otoy's Sculptron
Free GPU-based sculpting tool's new modifier stack will deform high-res meshes in near-real time.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020