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Renderer gets neat new sky model, new distance map and V-Ray-style adaptive environment sampling.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2020

Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

New all-in-one subscription-only product bundle gives access to all of the firm's VFX and motion graphics tools at a reduced rate.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets neat 'target frame rate' setting for viewport renders.

Monday, August 24th, 2020

Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.

Monday, August 24th, 2020

Natural media painting and vector drawing app for iOS and Windows devices gets new brush previews, plus support for clipping masks.

Thursday, August 20th, 2020

Online library of effects plugins gets new Quantum tool for light trails, plus better layer blending, glow and chromatic aberration.

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

Jealous of the new cloth-sculpting tools in Blender and ZBrush? This physics-based add-on should help.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

First major update to the popular photogrammetry tool adds new options for handling drone footage.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Now in beta: neat app applies the look of hand-painted stills to video. Now exports direct to After Effects.

Friday, August 14th, 2020

See the new tools for games artists due in Unity 2020 LTS, 2021.1 and 2021.2 - plus a bonus for anyone with a free Personal subscription.

Friday, August 14th, 2020

Big update to the digital sculpting tool adds complete cloth creation and soft body dynamics toolset. Check out all the features here.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020