Pixar releases RenderMan 25

Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion Reimagine

Online AI art tool creates variations of a source image, for quickly exploring looks and compositions.

Monday, March 20th, 2023

Nvidia's free Canvas app now generates 360° 4K EXRs

Free AI art tool turns your sketches into environment maps for use in game engines and DCC apps.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6

Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Review: Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED laptop

Find out how this Nvidia Studio laptop fares in real-world tests with 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and UE5.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 2.0

Scene layout and rendering app gets presets for turntable renders, USD export and CAD file import.

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Planetside Software unveils Terragen Sky

Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.

Monday, December 19th, 2022

Download Unity's free Digital Human Package

Create photorealistic humans in Unity with this library of tools from The Heretic and Enemies demos.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022

Sneak peek: Adobe's Project Artistic Scenes

Neat new AI tech shown at Adobe Sneaks 2022 transfers the style of a 2D image to an entire 3D scene.

Thursday, October 20th, 2022

Free add-on AI Render puts Stable Diffusion into Blender

AI image-generation framework turns simple 3D scenes in Blender into detailed, stylised concept art.

Monday, October 17th, 2022

Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 1.3

See what's new in Adobe's layout and rendering software, like this preset material showcase scene.

Saturday, October 8th, 2022

GauGAN360 turns doodles into 360-degree environments

Nvidia's new AI art demo turns sketches into 360° environment maps for use inside 3D software.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022