Unreal Engine gets a 5.8 Preview with Mesh Terrain, PCG editability, MetaHuman crowds, and MegaLights production readiness.

Datacolor is pushing beyond display profiling with Device Preview Plus, C2PA tracking, and a software layer that wants to help you with other duties as well. Subscribe to the free Digital Production ...

Project Falcon is a free, browser-based kitbashing tool that exports USD and STL, aiming to speed up hard-surface blockouts and handoffs. Subscribe to the free Digital Production newsletter, if you ...

Flair 1.2 adds macOS support for Maya, floating and perpetual licensing, faster rendering, and new line controls including ...

Claude gets a Blender connector, plus patron money for Blender core work. Your pipeline gets a new helper. Your lawyers get new reading. And there is other news: The new Claude connector for Blender ...

OTOY ships OctaneRender 2026.3: virtual textures finally work on the farm, NRC uses less memory, and USD plus MaterialX get more pipeline glue. OTOY shipped OctaneRender 2026.3 with a headline change ...

World Creator 2026.4 lets you type mathematical expressions into numerical fields. That sounds like a nerdy feature, because it is. It also means fewer hand-calculated offsets, fewer copy-and-paste ...

AMD cards can render in V-Ray GPU again. HIP is back, RDNA2 and newer get support, and heavy texture scenes may finally stop paging your soul. V‑Ray 7 Update 2 for 3ds Max delivers AI material tools, ...

V‑Ray 7 Update 2 for 3ds Max delivers AI material tools, a new Night Sky, and 3x faster Chaos Cloud GPU rendering. Subscribe to the free Digital Production newsletter, if you prefer your updates ...

Device simulation, calibration, content credentials and a larger software play: Heath Barber explains where Datacolor wants ...

Nuke Stage adds NotchLC, Gaussian Splats, USD scene workflows, and a metadata Vault for virtual production and ICVFX on ...

Mesh Match for Maya now supports facial and body landmark detection plus full‑body skeleton build to accelerate character rigging workflows. Subscribe to the free Digital Production newsletter, if you ...