E-on ships Vue 2016 R4 and PlantFactory 2016 R4

Support for 180° and 360° stereo rendering in Vue; new base geometries for leaves and flowers in PlantFactory.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017

Mental Ray: a retrospective

To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray.

Monday, November 20th, 2017

Nvidia discontinues Mental Ray

Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.

Monday, November 20th, 2017

OptiTrack ships Motive 2.0

Mocap software for firm's optical tracking systems gets neat ability to 'self-heal' calibration drift, support for OptiTrack Active VR solutions,

Friday, November 17th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp

Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Liquid Dream Solutions ships ButterflyNetRender 7.0

Update to renderfarm manager restores desktop controller app in addition to web-based interface.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2017

Xsens releases MVN Animate 2018

Firm claims that its new software lets inertial motion capture match optical systems for data accuracy.

Monday, November 13th, 2017

Get four free Renderpeople rigged 3D characters

Updated: Scan-based figures work in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya - and now Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine.

Sunday, November 12th, 2017

SideFX releases Houdini 16.5

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

innoBright ships Altus 1.9

Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.

Friday, November 3rd, 2017

Discover how Disney artist Kevin Hudson created 'Weeds'

Explore the making of an indie short created with Disney tech at Gnomon's free event next week. Watch free online.

Friday, November 3rd, 2017

Download Eisko's free rigged model of a human head

Updated: Get this photorealistic female head based on scan data. Now rigged and ready to animate.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017

Master environment art with Gnomon's new training videos

Two detailed new video tutorials set out current environment design workflows for VFX and games.

Monday, October 30th, 2017