Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2
Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
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AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender
GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0
Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Esri ships CityEngine 2023
Check out the new features in the procedural 3D city generation software, including better terrain sculpting and section rendering.
Monday, June 5th, 2023
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 8.2.2 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.
Monday, June 5th, 2023
Epic Games releases RealityScan 1.1
Free iOS scanning app turns smartphone photos into 3D models. Check out its new features.
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
Polycam gets new AI-based 360 Capture system
Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
Unity releases Unity 2022 LTS
Check out the key features for CG artists in the game engine's new Long Term Support release, including the new water system.
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
MxTools releases FormCutter 3.0 for 3ds Max
Interesting hard surface modelling add-on gets support for real-time cuts for quick shape exploration.
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp Update 1
Check out the new features in the SketchUp edition of renderer, like cutaway rendering in V-Ray GPU.
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
Grease Pencil 3.0 is coming in Blender 4.0
Check out the changes planned for this major update to the open-source app's 2D animation toolset.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2023
Get Reallusion's free ZBrush and Character Creator plugins
ZBrush Pose Tools creates a pose library in ZBrush; ZBrush Pose Link sends poses to it from Reallusion's Character Creator.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
Magic Nodes: node-based compositing in After Effects
Updated with details of version 1.5: neat add-on lets you wire nodes together to create composites.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023