The Foundry ships Mari 1.3: now with Ptex support
Latest update to 3D painting tool also adds displacement preview, environment mapping.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
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Mari to get Ptex support
Version 1.3 of The Foundry's 3D paint package to support Disney's UV-less texture format.
Monday, April 18th, 2011
Video tutorial: master texturing workflow in Mari
Watch a 45-minute walkthrough from Brandon Fayette and Jake Raymor of Bad Robot Productions
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Mari 1.2 now shipping
Texturing tool gets new mirror function, fractal noise shaders and Python integration - but no official support for ATI GPUs yet.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The Foundry releases first Windows version of Mari
Demo of the Weta-developed 3D painting tool to appear on the DVD of 3D World magazine
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Video: Master ZBrush 4's Shadowbox modelling tools
Pixologic founder releases two-part tutorial on ZBrush's hard-surface modelling toolset.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
FXGuide Previews Mari 3D Texturing Tool
Interview and demo with The Foundry.
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Mari - New Production Texturing Tool
Mari is a new product for the Foundry, developed by their R&D department and the texture department at Weta Digital.
Monday, March 29th, 2010
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Pixar ships RenderMan 25.2
Check out the new features in the heavyweight production renderer, including new compositing modes in the Stylized Looks NPR toolset.
Friday, June 30th, 2023
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Foundry ships Katana 5.0
Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5
Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020