Autodesk ships Maya 2018.4 and Maya LT 2018.4
Now shipping: update adds Arnold region rendering in the viewport, improved Render Setup workflow.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Event Coverage
Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system
'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Try V-Ray Cloud for free
Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
AMD unveils the Radeon Pro WX 8200
New Vega-based pro workstation GPU approaches the WX 9100 for compute power, but for just $999.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15
Now officially released: grading and editing app gets over 250 compositing tools from Fusion.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 2.0
Free plugin for editing Substance materials in 3ds Max now supports animation and network rendering.
Friday, August 10th, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 2.0
Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.4 for Maya
Powerful tissue simulation plugin gets support for Maya Fields, new tools to grow or shrink muscles.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
Curó generates and tracks budgets for VFX projects
Avatar VFX producer Joyce Cox's new online platform provides a smarter way to cost out VFX shows.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers
See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Quixel releases Quixel Mixer 1.0 in beta
Quixel's intuitive tool for blending scanned materials now out in beta. Free to Megascans subscribers.
Friday, May 18th, 2018
Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2
Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018