Unity acquires Weta Digital for $1.6 billion
Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
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See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing
See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
Get started with Houdini's Pyro FX toolset
New two-part Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides a detailed guide to Houdini smoke and fire simulations.
Saturday, November 6th, 2021
Golaem ships Golaem 8.0
Major update to the Maya crowd simulation software lets users interact with Golaem simulations inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1
GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap
See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 22.0
Compositing software gets long-awaited Multi-Frame Rendering system, new performance profiling tools, update to Cinema 4D Lite.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
SideFX releases Houdini 19
Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2
3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
ArmorPaint 0.8 ships
Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Apple unveils new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
See how the first Apple Silicon processors targeted at graphics pros perform in apps like Cinema 4D and Redshift.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.1
Maya-friendly character animation software adds USD import, audio and video editing, new Picker Tool.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 5 for 3ds Max and Maya
Updated: 3ds Max edition available. Check out the new features in the shattering and dynamics plugin.
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021