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Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.

Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.

Check out the new features in the desktop and VR sculpting tool, including a reworked 3D gizmo and an eye-catching Elastic Move tool.

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.

Check out the changes to the popular set of Cinema 4D add-ons, also including GPU-accelerated smoke and fire simulation in NeXus.

Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new workflows for creating more complex forms for buildings.

Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.

Check out the new AI technologies in the standalone app and Photoshop plugin for adding cinematic effects to still images.

Create a portfolio-worthy matte painting in Photoshop, Nuke and Blender with The Gnomon Workshop's new masterclass.

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.

Check out the changes to the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, including updates to displacement.

Check out the changes to the digital sculpting software, including a new retopology brush, plus photogrammetry in the iPad edition.

Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and animation software, including new Advanced Distributions for motion graphics.

Big update to the GPU renderer adds meshlet streaming for dense geometry, and support for 3DGS data, MaterialX and OpenPBR.

3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.

Free grading and video editing app now supports 32K workflows on M5 Macs. Check out the other new features for VFX artists and colorists.

Free update to the 3D compositor improves 3D rendering of shadow, reflect and refract layers, and improves performance and stability.

Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.

Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in Cyber Week include Adobe, Boris FX and Maxon.

Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including a new viewport renderer, and initial support for quadrupeds.