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See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.

Sunday, December 15th, 2019

Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Look dev and lighting tool gets new API to lay groundwork for native viewer based on Pixar's Hydra real-time rendering architecture.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017

Platform for developing CG tools gets revamped Tab Search, 'Kludge' API for incorporating external C++ libraries.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017