Firefly is coming to Omniverse
Check out the Summer 2023 updates to Nvidia's online design platform, plus plans to integrate Adobe's generative AI toolset.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
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Nvidia unveils RTX 4000, 4500 and 5000 GPUs
New Ada Generation workstation cards include the 'most powerful single-slot GPU on the planet'.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.06
Now shipping: update to real-time rendering toolkit extends OpenUSD support, adds support for rendering EXR sequences.
Monday, August 7th, 2023
Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps
Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.
Monday, August 7th, 2023
Tutorial: Creating a Monolithic City in Unreal Engine 5
Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, August 6th, 2023
AMD launches Radeon Pro W7600 and Radeon Pro W7500
New sub-$600 8GB RDNA 3 workstation GPUs balance power and affordability for CG work,
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
AWS releases Deadline 10.3
Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Check out Plasticity's new Blender bridge
Popular lightweight NURBS modeller gets add-on live-linking it to the open-source 3D software.
Friday, August 4th, 2023
QuiltiX: a new open-source MaterialX material editor
Free node-based tool lets users author MaterialX materials for use in renderers like Arnold and Karma.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
ASWF adopts OpenImageIO
Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
Pixar and partners launch Alliance for OpenUSD
New industry body aims to make USD an international standard for more than just visual effects work.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
Check out xStudio, DNEG's open-source playback tool
Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.
Monday, July 31st, 2023
Tutorial: Designing Environments for Games
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to use Blender's Grease Pencil toolset to sketch concepts in 3D.
Sunday, July 30th, 2023