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Discover how artists working in their personal time created a 3D short using the same tech as a Disney feature.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

Support for 180° and 360° stereo rendering in Vue; new base geometries for leaves and flowers in PlantFactory.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017

Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.

Monday, November 20th, 2017

Director Nicholas Arioli reveals the secrets of making your first short at a free talk at Gnomon this evening. Watch free online.

Monday, November 20th, 2017

Mocap software for firm's optical tracking systems gets neat ability to 'self-heal' calibration drift, support for OptiTrack Active VR solutions,

Friday, November 17th, 2017

Photogrammetry software gets support for custom shaders, option to export textures in EXR format or as 32-bit TIFFs, 4K video output.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Architectural modeling tool gets new options for section cuts and BIM data, plus native STL export.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

See six of the movie's key concept artists discuss their work at a free event at Gnomon's Hollywood campus on Saturday.

Sunday, November 12th, 2017

Download the Japanese studio's neat new free After Effects plugins tailored to 2D animation work.

Thursday, November 9th, 2017

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Updated with new Android version: Sketching app gets support for 100 megapixel images, predictive stroke system.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.

Friday, November 3rd, 2017