Joe Alter previews Shave and a Haircut 10
Big update to Maya hair plugin to add full GPU support, powerful grooming and sculpting options.
Saturday, July 30th, 2016
OpenCL
AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 4
Fast-evolving 3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets revamped FLIP fluid, cloth and FEM solvers, better V-Ray support, plus more streamlined UI.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Go Ghost unveils first 'sub pixel sample compositor'
Evotis will take compositing way beyond deep images, claims intriguing new tool's developer.
Monday, June 13th, 2016
Otoy releases OctaneRender 3.0
Now shipping: Long-awaited update to GPU renderer to add volumetrics, support for deep pixel compositing.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
LuxRender 1.6 ships
Open-source renderer gets new shadowcatcher system, plus variance clamping to reduce artefacts in renders.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
Glare Techologies ships Indigo Renderer 4.0 in beta
Long-awaited update adds support for pure GPU rendering. Supports multiple AMD, Nvidia or Intel GPUs.
Monday, April 11th, 2016
innoBright halves price of Altus 1.3
Updated: Tool for denoising images generated in renderers like Arnold and V-Ray now starts at $20/month.
Monday, March 28th, 2016
Otoy is cross-compiling CUDA for non-Nvidia GPUs
Story in VentureBeat retweeted by Otoy reports that the work will let OctaneRender run on AMD GPUs.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
Vulkan 1.0 arrives: GPU drivers already available
See tech demos for the next-gen graphics API and download drivers for Nvidia and AMD GPUs here.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
The GIMP team announces GIMP 2.9
Big update to open-source image-editing tool adds support for 32-bits-per-channel colour, OpenEXR files.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
LuxRender 1.5 ships
Now officially shipping: Open-source renderer gets major speed boosts, support for AOVs. New 3ds Max exporter to come.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Next Limit releases RealFlow 2015
Fluid simulator gets new GPU based solvers, better OpenVDB support, new artist and TD tools.
Friday, July 31st, 2015