Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2

Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Autodesk ships Flame 2020.1

VFX and finishing software gets new AI-based sky extraction system, plus the option to extract mattes from motion vector data.

Thursday, July 25th, 2019

Check out 'cinematography simulator' Cine Tracer

Interesting UE4-based tool lets users plan shots using CG versions of real-world lights and cameras.

Thursday, July 18th, 2019

Lenovo unveils ThinkPad P53 mobile graphics workstation

'World's most powerful' 15" mobile system has 8-core GPU, Quadro RTX 5000 GPU, RAID 5 storage, and 4K HDR display.

Friday, June 14th, 2019

Get Quake II with real-time ray tracing and PBR materials

Now available to download: Nvidia updates the 1997 shooter for real-time path tracing on Turing GPUs.

Monday, June 10th, 2019

10bit FX ships Notch 0.9.22

Real-time VFX and motion graphics tools get new GPU-agnostic hybrid ray tracing system, plus native support for Substance materials.

Friday, June 7th, 2019

Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro

Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation

Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019

Isotropix adds GPU ray tracing in Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2

It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.

Monday, April 29th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22

Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019