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

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

Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta

USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.

Monday, October 5th, 2020

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.5 for Blender in beta

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets neat 'target frame rate' setting for viewport renders.

Monday, August 24th, 2020

AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0

Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.

Monday, August 24th, 2020

Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1

Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.

Thursday, April 9th, 2020

Adobe ships Substance Designer 2019.2

Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps.

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates

Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU

Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action

New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5

Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018