Get Xolotl Studio's Substance Painter Live Link

Updated: neat plugin live links Substance Painter to Blender, Modo or Maya - and now 3ds Max and V-Ray.

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

Check out the new features in Blender 2.79

Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

Otoy releases free Nuke, After Effects plugins for OctaneVR

Subscription-only edition of the Octane renderer adds free support for the leading compositing tools.

Tuesday, September 5th, 2017

Autodesk makes Arnold free to schools and colleges

Free educational licences now available. Price of commercial subscriptions halved when renting in blocks of five.

Friday, August 18th, 2017

Pixar unveils RenderMan 22 and RenderMan XPU

Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech.

Monday, August 7th, 2017

Fabric Software announces Fabric Engine 2.6

Platform for developing VFX and games tools gets support for USD, Autodesk's AnimX, new RBF solver.

Friday, August 4th, 2017

Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5

GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.

Thursday, August 3rd, 2017

Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5

Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.

Monday, July 31st, 2017

Watch the best CG shorts from Siggraph 2017

Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Foundry partners J Cube to distribute Multiverse Studio

Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

Redshift gets new GPU benchmarking utility

See how current Nvidia workstation and gaming GPUs compare in this real-world render benchmark test.

Friday, June 23rd, 2017

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2017's technical papers

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from cutting-edge fluid sims to ways to model tentacles.

Monday, June 19th, 2017

Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 7.2

Popular production tracking system gets new auto-installation system; new standalone publishing app.

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017