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Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Wide-ranging update to the natural media painting software adds new AI-boosted Liquify and Warp tools.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Check out the new features due in the next major update to the renderer - including proper support for the camera inside volumes.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

New features in the VR sculpting app include this (literally) eye-popping Boolean Split operation.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Check out the new features in the final free update to ZBrush for perpetual licence holders, including improved USD export to Omniverse.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

3D texture painting software gets new USD Look export system, plus neat Roller Brush for repeating details like scales and stitches.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

New cloud-based media archiving system helps VFX and CG firms build online libraries of key assets.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022