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Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.

Monday, December 19th, 2022

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

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Check out the new features in the final free update to ZBrush for perpetual licence holders, including improved USD export to Omniverse.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

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

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

New cloud-based media archiving system helps VFX and CG firms build online libraries of key assets.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022