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Perpetual software licences to be phased out over the next 12-24 months, leaving only maintenance and rental options.

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

Updated: rental price cut to $30 per month. Annual rental cut from $400 to $240 in Autodesk's own store.

Monday, June 9th, 2014

Updated: Smoke 2015 now shipping on a pay-as-you-go-only basis. Flame 2015 family also available.

Thursday, May 8th, 2014

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025