Otoy releases OctaneRender 2025.2

Check out the changes to the GPU renderer, including support for OIDN denoising on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Apple Silicon processors.

Saturday, May 17th, 2025

Ziva VFX and OIDN creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Soft tissue simulation and render denoising system win tech 'Oscars', due to be presented at a ceremony tonight. Check out the other winners.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

5 key features in Blender 4.4

Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Houdini

Check out the new features in the renderer, including a new Houdini-specific volume shader and better integration with Solaris.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Maya

Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Cinema 4D

Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.7

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Wild Robot.

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.2

GPU renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering options and a USD Command Line Rendering tool for use on render farms.

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

Unreal Engine 5.5: discover 10 key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025.3

3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2024.1

Discover the new features in the latest version of the GPU renderer - and which features are now scheduled for future releases.

Saturday, September 21st, 2024

Check out the new machine learning tools in Silhouette 2024.5

Roto and paint software gets new 'single-click' AI tool for generating masks from source footage, plus new annotation tools.

Saturday, September 14th, 2024