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3D design and animation software gets new smoke and fire simulation system and native Redshift camera.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

Major update to Omniverse's scene layout app adds new physics features and support for MaterialX.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2022

Third beta of the plugin adds a USD Stage Object for referencing entire USD scenes inside 3ds Max.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

Much-anticipated VR sculpting tool provides a new way to rough out characters or hard-surface props.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

New free beta of the VR sculpting software adds stroke stabilisation and long-awaited stamp system.

Friday, September 30th, 2022

Character creation tool gets neat new auto-rigging system, new LOD creation and subdivision options.

Thursday, September 29th, 2022

3D modelling and animation app gets faster viewport animation playback, plus updates to the rigging and Blue Pencil toolsets.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio now reflects emotions like joy and pain.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.

Friday, August 5th, 2022