Maxon ships Cinebench R20

Popular free tool for benchmarking graphics workstations now properly stresses modern CPUs, but the GPU benchmark has gone entirely.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service

Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

Get SideFX's free AliceVision photogrammetry plugin

New plugin makes it possible to use the open-source image-based modelling framework from Houdini.

Friday, February 22nd, 2019

Check out new open-source VFX render manager OpenCue

Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.

Friday, January 25th, 2019

Asolve launches Render Node Monitor 2.0

New cloud-based 3ds Max render management system is aimed at freelancers and smaller studios.

Monday, December 24th, 2018

Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0

Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Nvidia announces $900 Quadro RTX 4000 GPU

Latest card in Nvidia's new range of 'ray tracing ready' GPUs has similar price to the old Quadro P4000.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

NIM Labs releases NIM 3.0

Studio management platform gets revamped shot review system, customisable templates for bidding jobs, new live link to Premiere Pro.

Thursday, October 11th, 2018

AXYZ design ships anima 3.5

3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation plugin's new 'alive' technology synchronises cameras and geometry with the host app.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

Nvidia unveils Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 GPUs

'World's first ray tracing GPUs' based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture will ship later this year.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Try V-Ray Cloud for free

Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.

Monday, August 13th, 2018

Pixologic ships ZBrushCore 2018

Free update to ZBrush's cut-down edition adds new VDM brushes, Gizmo3D deformers and 3D text.

Friday, July 13th, 2018

BabylonDreams releases vrscene GUI

Handy new utility for editing V-Ray .vrscene files lets users adjust render settings on the fly or split jobs into batches.

Friday, May 25th, 2018