Adobe releases Project Felix in beta

Simple rendering and compositing app is free to anyone with a current paid Creative Cloud subscription.

Friday, December 23rd, 2016

Sneak peek: V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max

New video: New features will include resumable rendering and major updates to V-Ray RT GPU.

Thursday, December 22nd, 2016

LAUBLab releases V-RayforC4D 3.4

Huge update moves Cinema 4D edition of renderer to same core technology as the 3ds Max edition.

Friday, December 16th, 2016

Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers for CG artists

See over 50 money-saving offers, including Adobe, Autodesk, Allegorithmic, Marvelous Designer and Next Limit.

Thursday, November 24th, 2016

Nvidia is releasing Mental Ray for Maya for free

For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

Nvidia releases Iray for Cinema 4D

Latest plugin version of Iray provides fast, GPU-based, physically accurate render previews inside Cinema 4D.

Thursday, September 8th, 2016

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 5.5

Update to texture-creation tool adds ability to author materials in Nvidia's MDL language, new Linux edition.

Friday, August 26th, 2016

The best new CG software from Siggraph 2016

We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016

Review: Iray for 3ds Max

Jason Lewis benchmarks the new, more powerful plugin version of Nvidia's GPU-based renderer with a range of real-world graphics cards.

Thursday, July 14th, 2016

Otoy reveals its roadmap to OctaneRender 4.0

Support for CPU rendering, skinned characters and Brigade path tracing - plus OctaneImager, an entire new compositing app.

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Nvidia ships Iray for 3ds Max and Maya 2016

Share physically based materials between host apps or mental ray with the plugins' new MDL format.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

Check out the new features in mental ray 3.13

New GI engine, AO pass, support for deep compositing and UDIM - and updatable separately to your 3D app.

Friday, April 17th, 2015