Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
New Education Collective bundles also provide ongoing discounts on Nuke, Mari, Modo and Katana.
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.
Friday, July 20th, 2018
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.
Monday, April 30th, 2018
Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018