AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs

New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.1

Renderer gets new post effects framework, physically correct nested dielectrics, improvements to USD support and Arnold GPU.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

SideFX ships Houdini 18.5

Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

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

Chaos Group teases new version of V-Ray for Blender

Facebook post hints at long-awaited public release of V-Ray with support for Blender 2.80+.

Monday, October 5th, 2020

Download the first public demo of Redshift 3.0

New trial edition lets you test this major update to the GPU renderer, even if you aren't an existing user.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

Sneak peek: V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D

Updated: early registration now available for the beta of the next major version of the C4D renderer.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

Lightmap releases Blender plugin for HDR Light Studio

New 'Xenon' update makes the real-time lighting tool available to Blender users for the first time.

Tuesday, September 8th, 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

3d-io releases UV packing tool UV-Packer 3 for free

Download the new version of the powerful automated 3ds Max UV packing plugin completely free.

Thursday, August 27th, 2020

Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 6 for Cinema 4D

Renderer gets neat new sky model, new distance map and V-Ray-style adaptive environment sampling.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2020

Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles

Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.

Tuesday, August 25th, 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