NewTek ships LightWave 2018

Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.

Monday, January 1st, 2018

Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists

Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

innoBright ships Altus 1.9

Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.

Friday, November 3rd, 2017

Chaos Group buys Corona developer Render Legion

Both V-Ray and Corona keep their original dev teams, but tech will be shared between the two renderers.

Sunday, August 27th, 2017

Pixar unveils RenderMan 22 and RenderMan XPU

Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech.

Monday, August 7th, 2017

Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5

Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.

Monday, July 31st, 2017

Watch the best CG shorts from Siggraph 2017

Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Foundry unveils Elara

New cloud-based service will provide a complete VFX pipeline in a web browser, including software, storage, rendering and analytics.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Andrey Kozlov ships FStormRender for 3ds Max

Check out the ex-OctaneRender dev's promising unbiased renderer, designed for Nvidia gaming GPUs.

Friday, December 9th, 2016

Google adds Houdini and C4D support to Zync Render

New apps added to online render service alongside Maya and Nuke. GPU compute coming next year?

Monday, November 28th, 2016

Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers for CG artists

See over 50 money-saving offers, including Adobe, Autodesk, Allegorithmic, Marvelous Designer and Next Limit.

Thursday, November 24th, 2016

Chaos Group invests €2 million in CL3VER

Online service to turn 3D models into presentations to get V-Ray rendering. New products in beta.

Thursday, November 24th, 2016

SiNi Software ships IgNite, ProxSi, SiClone for 3ds Max

New plugins provide powerful workflow, proxy and array functionality for 3ds Max users.

Thursday, November 17th, 2016