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Scene layout and rendering app gets key workflow improvements - and a new $150 perpetual licence.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2021

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Material authoring app's neat new particle nodes open up workflows from scattering to 3D plant design.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.

Saturday, November 20th, 2021

Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets HUD opacity settings; control sliders for more colour spaces, including Lab.

Saturday, November 20th, 2021

Check out the new tools in the digital sculpting software - from major features like Bas Relief and BevelPro to five hidden gems.

Thursday, November 18th, 2021

Popular ZBrush brush manager goes back to being a free plugin. Now integrates directly into ZBrush.

Thursday, November 18th, 2021

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Changes cut cost of the facial mocap system for indie artists streaming to Unreal Engine by over $3,000/year.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021

Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.

Friday, November 12th, 2021

Godot 3.4 ships

Open-source game engine gets better tonemapping, new UI theme editor, glTF export for editing scenes in DCC apps like Blender.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021