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Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

Royalty-free open-source codec for professional video production is the VFX industry standards body's latest hosted project.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

First update to the open standard for VFX plugins in almost a decade improves color management, and widens CPU and GPU support.

Friday, September 6th, 2024

New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024

Industry body to guide OpenUSD development gets new members, and enters agreement to ensure interoperability with glTF.

Wednesday, December 13th, 2023

Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.

Monday, July 31st, 2023

OctaneRender developer joins VFX and movie industry body alongside CoreWeave and Bolt Graphics.

Friday, July 7th, 2023

Check out the changes to the open standard for materials and look dev data, widely used in VFX software.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2023

Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager.

Friday, February 3rd, 2023