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Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

Big update to the terrain generator introduces new UI, history system, raises build speed by up to 60%.

Thursday, January 28th, 2021

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Image viewer and shot playback tool for VFX and animation gets support for Python 3, new long-term Available Previous Versions.

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

Image viewer and playback tool provided with Shotgun gets new prorgressive loading system to speed up work on long playlists.

Saturday, July 18th, 2020

See what the move to Apple Silicon will mean for CG tools like Maya, Photoshop, Blender and Octane X.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020

Check out the new snapping options in the lighting and look dev tool, and the new toon shading system in its 3Delight NSI renderer.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2020

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Base edition of the software gets neat Healing Brush-like Inpaint node; NukeX gets VR compositing tools from Cara VR.

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

FBX developer to join open standards body's 3D Formats Working Group to support development of the glTF file format.

Thursday, July 25th, 2019