Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021

See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development

Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2020

Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0

Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020

Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max

Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1

Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

BorisFX releases Mocha Pro 2020.5

Workflow-focused update to planar tracking tool improves performance on deep and wide-angle shots.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020

Boris FX ships Silhouette Paint

New touch-up and rig removal plugin makes Silhouette's paint tools available inside compositing apps like Nuke and After Effects.

Thursday, April 16th, 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

Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2

Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.

Friday, March 27th, 2020

Foundry ships Nuke 12.1, NukeX 12.1, Nuke Studio 12.1

Check out the new features in Foundry's family of compositing tools, broken down by edition.

Thursday, February 20th, 2020

Adobe unveils Substance Designer 2019.3

Material-authoring software to get new colour management tools, new curvature baker, and UX updates.

Thursday, December 19th, 2019

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview

GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Get free VFX image viewer and playback tool DJV 2

Ex-Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's shot review tool is engineered for serious VFX and animation work.

Sunday, November 24th, 2019