Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.1

3D texture painting tool gets new real-time decal mode, GPU-based curvature map baker, Python API.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020

Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2

Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.

Monday, April 6th, 2020

Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500

Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

Vulkan now does ray tracing

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

cebas ships finalRender Drop 4

3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020

Check out the Blender 3.0 and LTS product roadmap

Next big update to the open-source 3D software due in 2021, with long term support releases every year.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for SketchUp Update 2

Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, February 6th, 2020

Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020

Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0

Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.

Thursday, December 12th, 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

Nvidia drops macOS support for CUDA

This week's 10.2 release of CUDA Toolkit, used by many GPU render engines, is the last to run on Macs.

Friday, November 22nd, 2019