July 5, 2018
Parametric modelling plugin gets support for V-Ray Next and Arnold; new food products in asset library. Read More »
June 14, 2018
Big update to scattering plugin adds option to distribute objects using splines or particle systems. Read More »
June 6, 2018
Update to standalone render denoiser boosts image processing speed, particularly for animations. Read More »
May 31, 2018
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools. Read More »
May 16, 2018
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur. Read More »
April 13, 2018
New free Substance integration plugin for 3ds Max now out of beta and ready for use in production. Read More »
April 6, 2018
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support. Read More »
March 22, 2018
Now shipping: Watch videos of the new features, including support for Open Shading Language and the Advanced Wood procedural map. Read More »
March 19, 2018
Top gaseous fluid simulator gets GPU-accelerated viewport preview, smoother simulation retiming, better fluid advection. Read More »
March 8, 2018
New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX. Read More »
February 21, 2018 | 2 comments
Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4. Read More »
January 17, 2018
We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool. Read More »
January 16, 2018
Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets new outliner for geometry hierarchies, support for Alembic and USD sequences. Read More »
January 15, 2018
Updated: New TurboSquid tech converts files in the native format of one 3D app to that of another. Now also works with C4D. Read More »
January 9, 2018
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by our 125,000 Facebook followers. Read More »
December 1, 2017
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new 'brain share' feature for AI agents, improved Direct Logic engine and instancing system. Read More »
November 20, 2017 | 9 comments
To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray. Read More »
November 3, 2017
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL. Read More »
October 25, 2017
Updated: neat plugin live links Substance Painter to Blender, Modo or Maya - and now 3ds Max and V-Ray. Read More »
October 4, 2017
Updated: Autodesk discusses how the new Fluids simulation toolset stacks up against Bifröst in Maya. Read More »
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