Autodesk releases Arnold 7.3

Check out the changes in the compatibility-breaking update to the renderer, including better denoising and progressive rendering.

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

5 key features in Blender 4.1

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D app, from better baking to improvements to Cycles and the Sequencer.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Lumion releases Lumion 2024.0

Check out the new features in the real-time visualization tool, including better, faster ray traced rendering, with support for temporal denoising.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.5

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 2

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Chaos releases Vantage 2.2

Real-time renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets better hair and fur rendering, better denoising and upscaling, new firefly filter.

Saturday, December 9th, 2023

Godot 4.2 ships: check out 5 key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source game engine, including updates to rendering, lightmaps and GPU particles.

Friday, December 1st, 2023

Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 2

Sizeable update to the production renderer adds MaterialX support, new Enscape bridge, and updates to V-Ray GPU and Chaos Scatter.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Otoy unveils the Octane 2024 product roadmap

Check out the features due in the GPU renderer in 2024, including MaterialX support, new AI assistant OctaneGPT, and light field baking.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Foundry releases Nuke 15.0, NukeX 15.0, Nuke Studio 15.0

Check out the new features in the compositing and editorial software, including native Apple Silicon and OpenAssetIO support.

Friday, October 13th, 2023

Chaos releases Vantage 2.1

Real-time ray tracing renderer becomes first DCC app to support NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 and its AI-trained Ray Reconstruction denoiser.

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps

Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Chaos releases Vantage 2.0

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.

Thursday, June 29th, 2023