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Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.

Friday, November 12th, 2021

3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021

See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021

Major update to the Maya crowd simulation software lets users interact with Golaem simulations inside Unreal Engine in real time.

Thursday, November 4th, 2021

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.

Thursday, October 28th, 2021

Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.

Wednesday, October 27th, 2021

3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021

Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021