Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 17.3

Free grading and editing software is now 'up to 3x' faster on Macs with Apple's new M1 processors.

Friday, August 20th, 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

Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 3.7

Turn your Blender, 3ds Max and Maya scenes into browser-based 3D apps - and now, into native iOS, Android or desktop apps as well.

Friday, May 28th, 2021

Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create

Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1

Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

Check out new Maya hair plugin Draw Groom Guides

Neat tool snaps hair guides to a target mesh, then lets you reshape the entire hairstyle interactively.

Thursday, January 21st, 2021

Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists

Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5

Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

Check out fast 3ds Max cloth simulation plugin Dynamo

Deform Dynamics' real-time cloth simulation tool performs '10-100x faster' than Max's Cloth modifier.

Friday, October 9th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.90

Latest update to the open-source 3D app brings major changes to sculpting, rendering and simulation.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Otoy launches RNDR

Innovative 'distributed GPU render network' lets OctaneRender users earn credits by making their PCs available to others for rendering.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

Golaem ships Golaem 7.3

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020