Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Google Cloud launches Zync Render 2.0

Online rendering service now offers up to 48,000 CPU cores per user, new GPU rendering options.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2019

Cubic Motion ships Persona

Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

Discover how to create a CG superhero animation for VFX

Supergirl animation supervisor Elaina Scott's Gnomon tutorial takes you from previs to final shot.

Friday, April 26th, 2019

e-on software ships Vue R2 and PlantFactory R2

Vue gets updates to EcoSystems, the cloud tools and the Path Tracer; PlantFactory gets interactive path traced previews.

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

Discover how CoSA VFX created Lucifer's wings

See key artists break down their CG work on the drama at Gnomon's Hollywood campus next week. Watch free online.

Saturday, April 13th, 2019

Game engine and crowd tools devs win tech Emmy Awards

Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

AMD ships Radeon ProRender for Blender 2.0 in open beta

Free GPU renderer gets support for AI denoising, adaptive sampling, hair rendering. New versions for 3ds Max & Maya, too.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019

Maxon buys Redshift

Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Eye candy: Autodesk's 2019 M&E showreel

See new work created in 3ds Max, Maya and Flame, from Fantastic Beasts to fabulous student shorts.

Monday, April 8th, 2019

Faceware ships Analyzer 3.8, Retargeter 5.8 and Shepherd

Neat AI-driven updates to firm's markerless facial capture software boost quality of automated solves.

Thursday, April 4th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates

Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019