CG Channel

New free work-in-progress tool resurfaces meshes for 3D printing and troubleshoots common errors.

Monday, October 14th, 2013

Fun iPad app sculpts and poses characters via a skeletal system, then readies them for 3D printing.

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Jason Lewis assesses how Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage and Mudbox 2012 perform in the real world.

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Check out the new features in the material authoring and 3D capture software, including OpenPBR support and new material templates.

Monday, June 29th, 2026

Update to the 3D texture painting software for games and VFX reworks baking and UV unwrapping. Check out all of the new features.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026

Latest major update to the material authoring software adds new 3D Shape Splatter node, SDF shape creation tools, OpenPBR support.

Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Big update to the GPU renderer adds meshlet streaming for dense geometry, and support for 3DGS data, MaterialX and OpenPBR.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Updated: See the new tools due in the game engine in 2025, including updates to shading, rendering, animation and world building.

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes

Monday, December 4th, 2023

First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

Search for "autodesk standard surface"