Katana 3.0 users will get 3Delight renderer free

Powerful RenderMan-compliant renderer will be available as free interactive rendering plugin when Katana 3.0 ships.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

Pixar ships RenderMan 21.5

Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5

Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.

Monday, July 31st, 2017

Watch the best CG shorts from Siggraph 2017

Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

ftrack announces ftrack Studio and ftrack Review

Cloud-based production tracking system gets new name and a new entry-level edition for shot review.

Wednesday, July 19th, 2017

e-on software to can Carbon Scatter, CloudFactory Ozone

2017 editions of the scattering and cloud-creation plugins, now on 'pre-release', will be the last to ship.

Wednesday, July 19th, 2017

Autodesk ceases sales of Gameware middleware

Scaleform, Navigation, Beast and HumanIK sales stopped on 12 July. Existing users get final source code of some tools.

Wednesday, July 19th, 2017

Santhosh Koneru: a visual effects director's progress

The Blur Studio artist discusses his award-winning short, The Legion, and new CG project The Vikings.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017

Master the art of combat animation for games

Follow Riot Games senior animator Jason Shum's step-by-step guide in Gnomon's four-hour training video.

Wednesday, July 5th, 2017

Golaem ships Golaem 6

Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender

Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Foundry partners J Cube to distribute Multiverse Studio

Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

Basefount ships Miarmy 5.5

Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.

Friday, June 23rd, 2017