Autodesk ships Flame 2020.1
VFX and finishing software gets new AI-based sky extraction system, plus the option to extract mattes from motion vector data.
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
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Golaem ships Golaem 7.0
Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
Basefount ships Miarmy 7.0
Maya crowd simulation tool now supports a wider range of character rigs for crowd agents. Viewport and rendering performance improved.
Thursday, June 13th, 2019
Chaos Group launches Chaos Research
New blue sky research initiative to explore 'less clumsy' ways to create CG images via machine learning.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Cubic Motion ships Persona
Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020
Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender for Blender 2.0 in open beta
Free GPU renderer gets support for AI denoising, adaptive sampling, hair rendering. New versions for 3ds Max & Maya, too.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
cebas ships finalRender Drop 3
3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Faceware slashes the prices of its facial mocap systems
Cost of perpetual licences of its Analyzer Studio software down 70%; rental now costs $199/year.
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Faceware ships Analyzer 3.8, Retargeter 5.8 and Shepherd
Neat AI-driven updates to firm's markerless facial capture software boost quality of automated solves.
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Intel releases open-source denoiser Open Image Denoise
New render denoising system is CPU-based, AI-driven, hardware-agnostic. See it in action here.
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max
Renderer gets support for GPU-based render denoising, better displacement, reduced RAM use.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018