Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU
Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Windows
Sketchbook is no longer owned by Autodesk
Veteran free digital sketching app for Mac, PC, iOS and Android gets spun off to a new independent firm.
Friday, June 25th, 2021
XP-Pen unveils Artist Pro 16TP touchscreen pen display
New $900 15.6-inch model is XP-Pen's first professional pen display to support 4K UHD resolution.
Monday, June 21st, 2021
AMD unveils Viewport Boost
Interesting new driver feature raises viewport frame rate in apps like 3ds Max and Twinmotion when running on AMD's latest pro GPUs.
Saturday, June 19th, 2021
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 3.7
Turn your Blender, 3ds Max and Maya scenes into browser-based 3D apps - and now, into native iOS, Android or desktop apps as well.
Friday, May 28th, 2021
Adobe ships Photoshop 22.4
Image-editing software now runs natively on ARM processors under Windows 10, like those in Microsoft's Surface Pro X tablets.
Monday, May 17th, 2021
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Godot 3.3 ships
Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Sneak peek: Lumberyard's new Atom renderer
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Foundry reveals its 2021 Mari product roadmap
3D texturing app to get Python 3 support, new USD workflows and updated brush engine, but macOS edition cancelled.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0
Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2102
3D tracking software gets support for Apple's new M1 processors and for modern high-DPI monitors.
Monday, February 8th, 2021
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.9 and Affinity Designer 1.9
Image-editing and vector design apps get external file referencing, GPU acceleration on Windows 10.
Monday, February 8th, 2021