Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3
Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
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Check out the new ML Deformer in Maya 2025.2
Latest update to the 3D software adds machine-learning-based tool to create fast approximations of complex character rigs.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Autodesk releases Arnold 7.3.2
Check out the new features in Autodesk's production renderer, including new controls for tonemapping toon-shaded renders.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2024.3
Check out the new features in the digital painting and CG art tool, like the updated CPU/GPU renderer.
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.5
Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Pilgway releases 3DCoatTextura 2023
Lower-cost edition of 3DCoat for texture painting gets new colour smoothing tool, better UV mapping.
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6
Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.
Friday, March 17th, 2023
Free tool: Batch Tonemapper
Handy free app batch-generates JPEG thumbnails for EXR and HDR files so they can be previewed properly on Windows or Linux.
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2022.52
Modelling, retopology and painting app gets multiresolution sculpting system, better volumetric painting.
Saturday, November 26th, 2022
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.6
Landscape generation software can now export clouds to other DCC apps in OpenVDB format.
Friday, November 4th, 2022
Chaos Czech ships Corona 8 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Major update to the renderer adds new object scattering, decal and cutaway systems, plus new pricing.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 2022.2
Low-cost digital painting and video processing app gets new Warp Mesh filter and tonemapping tool.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022