GPU acceleration

ASWF adopts OpenImageIO

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Nvidia open-sources PhysX 5

Download the source code for the latest version of the real-time physics SDK, along with smoke and fire simulation system Flow 2.0.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2022

Autodesk ships Maya 2023.2

3D modelling and animation app gets faster viewport animation playback, plus updates to the rigging and Blue Pencil toolsets.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB

'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Blender 3.1 ships

Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

Maxon releases Universe 5.1

Under-the-hood update to the library of effects for compositing and editing apps adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022

Autodesk ships Maya 2022.3

Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021