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Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 15.1
Check out the new features in the material authoring software, improving workflow when creating and editing node graphs.
Foundry adds 3D Gaussian Splats to the Nuke 17.0 open beta
Check out the features in the latest beta build of Nuke, also including a new BigCat node for training larger custom AI models on VFX data.
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Blender
Check out the latest features in the Blender edition of the renderer, including macOS support, and a new distributed rendering system.
Chaos releases Vantage 3.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Houdini
Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.
Leopoly releases Shapelab Max 2026
Check out the new features in the desktop and VR sculpting tool, including a reworked 3D gizmo and an eye-catching Elastic Move tool.
QuadSpinner unveils Gaea 3.0
Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.
Insydium releases Fused 2025.4 with new animation toolset Jidou
Check out the changes to the popular set of Cinema 4D add-ons, also including GPU-accelerated smoke and fire simulation in NeXus.
Esri releases CityEngine 2025.1
Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new workflows for creating more complex forms for buildings.
Pixar releases RenderMan 27.1
Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.
Maxon releases Red Giant 2026.1 and 2026.2
Check out the new features in the set of tools for motion graphics and VFX artists, including generation of depth maps from video.
Boris FX releases Optics 2026 with AI-powered facial masking
Check out the new AI technologies in the standalone app and Photoshop plugin for adding cinematic effects to still images.
Tutorial: Cinematic Matte Painting Techniques
Create a portfolio-worthy matte painting in Photoshop, Nuke and Blender with The Gnomon Workshop's new masterclass.
Unity 6.3 LTS is out: see 5 key features for games artists
Read our pick of the latest features, from the power to create terrain shaders in the Shader Editor to a big step towards a unified renderer.
Maxon releases Redshift 2026.2
Check out the changes to the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, including updates to displacement.
Maxon releases ZBrush 2026.1 and ZBrush for iPad 2026.1
Check out the changes to the digital sculpting software, including a new retopology brush, plus photogrammetry in the iPad edition.
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2026.1
Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and animation software, including new Advanced Distributions for motion graphics.
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2026.1
Big update to the GPU renderer adds meshlet streaming for dense geometry, and support for 3DGS data, MaterialX and OpenPBR.
Foundry releases Mari 7.5
3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 20.3
Free grading and video editing app now supports 32K workflows on M5 Macs. Check out the other new features for VFX artists and colorists.
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