e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Check out the new features in Blender's Cycles X renderer

See how the major rewrite of the renderer has evolved from initial alpha to its release in Blender 3.0 next week.

Thursday, November 25th, 2021

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021

See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

Isotropix unveils Angie

Updated, new demo: Check out the FAQs for Clarisse iFX's next-gen CPU/GPU render engine, and see how it performs on gaming GPUs.

Friday, September 17th, 2021

AMD unveils Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600 GPUs

New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2021

The Blender Foundation unveils Cycles X

Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship

Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D

Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.

Friday, December 11th, 2020

AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs

New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

Download the first public demo of Redshift 3.0

New trial edition lets you test this major update to the GPU renderer, even if you aren't an existing user.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.90

Latest update to the open-source 3D app brings major changes to sculpting, rendering and simulation.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020

Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.

Friday, August 28th, 2020

Foundry ships Modo 14.1

3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.

Monday, July 27th, 2020