ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk launch OpenPBR 1.0
New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
Disney principled shader
Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2
Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.
Monday, April 6th, 2020
Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP5
Shot layout and look dev tool gets new firefly filtering system, better handling of Light Path Expressions.
Friday, December 27th, 2019
Check out Muhammad Etman's Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool 2.0
FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender for Blender 2.0 in open beta
Free GPU renderer gets support for AI denoising, adaptive sampling, hair rendering. New versions for 3ds Max & Maya, too.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 7.3
Sub-$100 Mac-only 3D software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, new dark UI theme.
Friday, October 19th, 2018
Download Disney's data set for Motunui island from Moana
Explore the actual production data, now available for research and testing. OBJ format, Ptex textures.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018
Godot team ships Godot 3.0
Big update to the open-source game engine to add new PBR renderer, new audio engine, visual scripting, and early VR support.
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
Foundry ships Mari 4.0
Workflow-focused update gives the texture-painting app a decluttered new UI and better interoperability with other key VFX pipeline tools.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017