April 3, 2020
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur. Read More »
March 19, 2020
High-performance USD-native Maya layout, look dev and lighting system now free to freelancers. Read More »
March 7, 2020
New UE4 plugin for Atoms Crowd promises to create large real-time crowd sims on consumer PCs. Read More »
March 5, 2020
Production renderer gets improved surface shadowing when using bump or normal maps. Other than that, it's primarily a bugfix update. Read More »
January 10, 2020
Lighting and look dev tool gets new Monitor Layer displaying ray traced renders in the viewport, plus 2-30x speed boost on multi-core CPUs. Read More »
January 1, 2020
Watch an eye-catching two-minute round-up of the best animation and VFX from China, Japan and Korea. Read More »
December 16, 2019
Cross-platform crowd animation system gets new USD exporter, plus integration with Clarisse iFX. Read More »
December 12, 2019
Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users. Read More »
December 5, 2019
Updated: latest experimental build of the GPU renderer lets you use Cinema 4D noises in other apps. Read More »
November 7, 2019
All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch. Read More »
July 31, 2019
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways. Read More »
July 29, 2019
Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering. Read More »
May 9, 2019
Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten". Read More »
April 9, 2019
Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists. Read More »
March 19, 2019
Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal. Read More »
January 25, 2019
Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud. 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 9, 2018
New Education Collective bundles also provide ongoing discounts on Nuke, Mari, Modo and Katana. Read More »
September 10, 2018
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco. Read More »
August 8, 2018
Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system. Read More »
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