Blender's new Vulkan rendering backend has gone live
'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
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Adobe ships After Effects 24.0
Check out the new features in the compositing software, including the AI-powered Next-Gen Roto Brush and expanded OCIO support.
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer becomes first DCC app to support NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 and its AI-trained Ray Reconstruction denoiser.
Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Maxon releases Cinebench 2024
Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.5
Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
AMD launches Radeon Pro W7600 and Radeon Pro W7500
New sub-$600 8GB RDNA 3 workstation GPUs balance power and affordability for CG work,
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Infinigen: a free generator for procedural 3D environments
Intriguing Blender-based tool can automatically generate 3D terrain, plants - and even rigged creatures.
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 2
Popular open-source render denoiser now runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs as well as CPUs.
Monday, July 3rd, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
5 key features in Blender 3.6
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from Simulation Nodes and GPU ray tracing to neat hidden bonuses.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2
Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender
GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Apple unveils 2023 Mac Pro
See how the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro workstation stacks up against old Intel models in After Effects, Maya, Houdini and Photoshop.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023