Arnold 7.5.2.0 is now available

Stephen.Blair — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:37:20 GMT

We're excited to announce Arnold 7.5.2.0, a release packed with new creative tools and meaningful speed gains for your rendering pipeline.

☁️ Flow Render (Tech Preview)

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✨ Gaussian Splats

Bring photoreal, scanned 3D Gaussian Splats into Arnold. Load splats from `.ply` files and render them as-is or relight them to blend seamlessly into your scene.

🎨 Stylized & Non-Photorealistic Looks

Two new tools for cel-shading and stylized rendering. **Tone Zones** split your lighting into clean brightness bands for that hand-drawn look, while **Shader to RGBA** lets you take full lighting results into your shading tree for total creative control.

⚡ Faster Performance

GPU scene updates are up to **43% faster** — smoother interactive editing
Production scenes start up to **5x faster** thanks to optimized USD instancing
PLY meshes load **1.2–1.4x faster**

🖼️ Sharper Denoising

The noice denoiser now preserves fine detail, such as fur, whiskers, and fabric, without over-blurring, and eliminates stray black-pixel artifacts.

💡 Better USD Lighting

Full UsdLux support means cone shaping and IES profiles now work across all light types, for more accurate, flexible lighting in USD workflows.

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📖 Read the full release notes here: Arnold 7.5.2.0 Release Notes