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Pixar releases RenderMan 25

Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Foundry ships Katana 6.0

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

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Foundry releases Mari 6.0

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

Foundry releases Nuke 14.0

Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Boris FX ships Mocha Pro 2022.5

Planar tracker gets new set of non-destructive video preprocessing tools to help solve tricky shots.

Monday, May 2nd, 2022

Blender 3.1 ships

Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022