Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025.3
3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Universal Scene Description
Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3
Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Tutorial: Cinematic Lighting Shot Production
Master professional CG lighting workflows in Maya, Arnold, Katana and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2024.2
Sizeable update to the AI-assisted animation app adds AutoPhysics based character interaction, and support for facial blendshapes.
Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Maxon releases ZBrush 2025
Check out the new features in the digital sculpting tool, including USDZ export. Subscriptions also now include ZBrush for iPad.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
3D-Info is a lightweight open-source viewer for USD scenes
French movie trade organization CST's free tool offers an intuitive way to explore USD scenes. Now plays back animations in USD scenes, too.
Sunday, September 8th, 2024
Check out the new features in Unigine 2.19
Game engine gets support for multi-bounce lighting, OpenXR, and USD export. Free for use on projects earning under $100,000/year.
Tuesday, August 20th, 2024
OpenUSD now supports Vulkan
Universal Scene Description's HgiVulkan backend is intended to make Vulkan a 'more compelling option' for tools developers.
Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
Call of Duty: Warzone's Caldera map is now a free USD data set
Get an open-source version of the geometry for a real AAA game map as a resource for game art, pipeline testing and tools development.
Thursday, August 8th, 2024
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2025.1
Check out the new features in this unexpected quality-of-life update to the character animation and mocap editing software.
Friday, August 2nd, 2024
Check out the new ML Deformer in Maya 2025.2
Latest update to the 3D software adds machine-learning-based tool to create fast approximations of complex character rigs.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2024.5
Sizeable update to the tracking app extends the new 3D tracking toolset, and adds Alembic export and direct export to After Effects.
Monday, July 29th, 2024
5 key features in Blender 4.2
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from new digital sculpting tools and GPU compositing to 'Eevee Next'.
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024