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

Pixar ships RenderMan 22.6

Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2018.1

Texture painting tool gets new, decluttered UI, better 4K painting performance, option to drag and drop materials.

Friday, March 16th, 2018

Review: are the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 worth the money for CG?

See how NVIDIA's top-of-the-range Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs performed in real-world tests in popular DCC applications.

Wednesday, December 17th, 2025

Chaos releases Vantage 3.1

Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Leopoly releases Shapelab Max 2026

Check out the new features in the desktop and VR sculpting tool, including a reworked 3D gizmo and an eye-catching Elastic Move tool.

Wednesday, December 10th, 2025

Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 20.3

Free update to the 3D compositor improves 3D rendering of shadow, reflect and refract layers, and improves performance and stability.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Black Friday, Cyber Week and holiday 2025 deals for CG artists

Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in late December include Mari and Marvelous Designer.

Friday, November 28th, 2025

Boris FX adds AMD GPU acceleration to Sapphire with HIP

[Sponsored] The open-source toolkit helped the VFX tools developer harness the power of AMD GPUs in its Emmy award-winning plugins.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025

Foundry releases Flix 8.0

Check out the new features in Foundry's heavyweight story development software for VFX and feature animation.

Friday, October 24th, 2025