Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2

Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Adobe ships Substance 3D Painter 7.4

3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0

Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation

Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.

Monday, August 2nd, 2021

Eye candy: Epic Games' new UE4 in-camera VFX demo

Check out this three-minute short with environments rendered in real time inside Unreal Engine 4.27.

Tuesday, July 27th, 2021

Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX

Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.

Friday, July 16th, 2021

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

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 11.2

Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

Maxon ships Redshift 3.0.46

GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021