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Ashraf Aiad figures out how to use MR iray GPU rendering with Maya 2011.

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Numerous bug fixes.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Maya at the Oscars

Jean-Eric Henault interviews Doug Walker and Donna Teggart fromo Alias|Wavefront.

Friday, January 17th, 2003

New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the 3ds Max effects plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

Friday, December 19th, 2025

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

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

Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025

Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.

Sunday, December 7th, 2025

Check out the changes to the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, including updates to displacement.

Thursday, December 4th, 2025

Check out the changes to the digital sculpting software, including a new retopology brush, plus photogrammetry in the iPad edition.

Thursday, December 4th, 2025

Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.

Monday, December 1st, 2025

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

Friday, November 28th, 2025

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