October 24, 2018
Update boosts speed of the smoke and fire simulator; adds support for nParticles and Arnold volumes. Read More »
October 23, 2018
Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision. Read More »
October 20, 2018
Master current workflows for creating realistic hair with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial. Read More »
October 10, 2018
Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming. Read More »
October 4, 2018
Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks. Read More »
September 24, 2018
Lighting TD's free 'Arnold to Nuke display plugin' lets users render directly into Nuke's UI from Maya, Cinema 4D - and now Houdini. Read More »
September 20, 2018
Release adds new Fluid Loader object for tweaking and rendering cached sims, further updates to Alembic and OSL. Read More »
August 14, 2018
Now shipping: update adds Arnold region rendering in the viewport, improved Render Setup workflow. Read More »
August 9, 2018
Standalone render denoising tools get new options to cut EXR file sizes by 'up to 90%', new Nuke and Arnold plugins. Read More »
August 6, 2018
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next. Read More »
July 20, 2018
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres. Read More »
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 »
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 »
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