Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015

Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for 3ds Max 3.20

New video: Service pack adds new VR cameras, GPU-based texture baking, option to render fluid sims.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2015

The Foundry announces Modo 901

Price of an individual licence up $300, but MeshFusion comes free. See the new modelling, UV and rendering tools here.

Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

Thunder Cloud Studio releases GMH2 for Maya

Updated, sneak peek at version 2.6: Neat script lets users create hair as polys, then convert to Maya Hair.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

DNA Research ships 3Delight for 3ds Max 2.0

RenderMan-compliant renderer used on Elysium now available for 3ds Max. The first licence is free.

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Review: HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation

Jason Lewis puts HP's 15-inch professional mobile workstation through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max SP1

Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.

Friday, December 12th, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Corona Renderer dev team post first Cinema 4D build

Free alpha of the promising renderer includes instancing, basic support for native C4D materials and lights.

Monday, September 8th, 2014

Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana

New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Download over 80 free 3ds Max, Maya & V-Ray materials

Updated: RenderBox Studio's free online library now includes two new sets of car paint materials.

Monday, July 21st, 2014

Laubwerk overhauls procedural Plants Kits

Ultra-detailed plant models now support translucency. Use them natively in Max or C4D, or in other apps via Python.

Monday, July 14th, 2014

Exocortex launches V-Ray cloud rendering in Clara.io

Embed interactive V-Ray streams from the browser-based 3D modelling tool into your web pages .

Tuesday, June 17th, 2014