May 14, 2013
Cloud render service now lets users upload hair data in ASE format. Check out some amazing images. Read More »
April 24, 2013
Cult developer Thiago Costa tells us why he believes the future of high-end CG lies online. Read More »
April 23, 2013
Take the sting out of crashes with this free script to save and resume long mental ray and V-Ray renders. Read More »
April 23, 2013
Updated plugin taps the unbiased LuxRender engine to boost realism of renders with minimal tweaking. Read More »
April 17, 2013
Interactive viewport plugin for Rhino is first third-party tool written with the PowerVR Brazil SDK raytrace toolkit. Read More »
April 17, 2013
Updated: Extra videos show the cult animation and rendering tool's new Skelevision interactive rigging view. Read More »
April 8, 2013
See a 13.9-billion-triangle scene rendered in real time in this noisy but beautifully photorealistic demo. Read More »
April 3, 2013
Exciting new service lets users upload models and generate photorealistic renders via a browser. Read More »
April 3, 2013
Promising standalone plant-creation system to feature node graph and option to 'paint' plants manually. Read More »
March 20, 2013
Real-time visualisation tool gets major new animation, lighting and import options. Price up a lot, too. Read More »
March 12, 2013
Updated: LW version of the GPU-based renderer enters open beta. Check out some nice new videos. Read More »
March 8, 2013
VFX supervisor Peter Szewyczk explains how he created the hallucinatory FX on a laptop in the Arnold renderer. Read More »
March 7, 2013
Real-time mental ray viewer for Maya gets new render snapshot system, material and lighting overrides. Read More »
March 6, 2013
Blizzard artist speed models a mech a day for ten days - and creates social media panic in Japan. Read More »
March 6, 2013
Updated: See the first test renders created with the plant modelling tool. And look - it can do mushrooms too. Read More »
February 22, 2013
New Maya particle renderer produces 'pixel-identical' output to its 3ds Max sibling, runs on laptops. Read More »
February 22, 2013
Impressive update adds high-end rigid-body dynamics, true claylike sculpting to the open-source app. Read More »
February 19, 2013
New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing. Read More »
February 15, 2013
Updated and now shipping: Intuitive renderer adds more features for general 3D users, including improved SSS and HDRI editing. Read More »
February 14, 2013
Mental ray rendering toolkit gets new Light Select and Diagnostic passes, better architectural light shader. Read More »