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Wednesday, January 19th, 2022

Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022

Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.

Monday, January 17th, 2022

Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.

Saturday, January 15th, 2022

Private equity-led deal to unite developers of three of arch viz's most popular renderers. All of both firms' products remain available.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Change follows the completion of Maxon's acquisition of Pixologic's assets on 29 December 2021.

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Get free rendered explosions for use in VFX compositing. 2K EXR image sequences; commercial use.

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.

Thursday, December 30th, 2021