Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for Maya

Maya edition of the renderer gets feature parity with 3ds Max; speed boosts of 20-50% on 'most scenes'.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

The Foundry releases Mari Indie 3.0

New update to $150 edition of Mari for game artists loosens restrictions on bit depth and object count.

Wednesday, February 10th, 2016

See the hottest Blender tools in progress for 2016

Check out Blender.org's list of code branches to watch this year, from this nifty new fracture modifier to OpenVDB support.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

The Foundry ships Mari 3

Updated, now shipping: Texturing app gets OpenSubdiv support; Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and UE4 shaders; native Modo integration.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Check out the new features in Blender 2.76

Now officially released: Latest update adds initial support for OpenSubdiv, 'huge' viewport performance boost.

Monday, October 12th, 2015

DAZ 3D ships Victoria 7

Popular stock figure gets new facial rig, plus OpenSubdiv and UDIM support to increase compatibility with other 3D apps.

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

The Foundry reveals entire feature set of Modo 901

Videos: see the key features of this major update, including the new Advanced Viewport and FX tools.

Friday, May 22nd, 2015

The best new software from NAB 2015

We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel readers: from VFX software to plugins & pipeline apps.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max 2016

Strong update adds node-based tool-authoring system, new physical camera, improved Alembic and OpenSubdiv support.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Check out 2015's hottest Blender R&D projects

Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal previews the software's upcoming features: from stereo 3D to Alembic and Ptex support.

Monday, January 5th, 2015

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max SP1

Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.

Friday, December 12th, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Autodesk releases Maya & 3ds Max 2015 Extension 1

New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014