Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
AMD
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
AMD unveils the Radeon Pro W5500
New addition to AMD's Radeon Pro W5000 series of workstation GPUs is a pro 8GB card for just $399.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Sneak peek: Octane X
Otoy's new Metal-based version of OctaneRender to run on the Intel chips in MacBook Pros as well as the AMD GPUs in Mac desktops.
Thursday, January 2nd, 2020
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 18
Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Nvidia drops macOS support for CUDA
This week's 10.2 release of CUDA Toolkit, used by many GPU render engines, is the last to run on Macs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
AMD launches new Radeon Pro W5700 workstation GPU
'World’s first 7nm professional PC workstation card' is the first in AMD's new line-up of pro GPUs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.8 for Maya
Free GPU renderer gets new 'full spectrum rendering' mode for hybrid rasterised/ray traced viewport previews.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.2
3D modelling and animation tool gets new mPath render engine, new Planar IK solver for character rigging, new Edge Chamfer tool.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
AMD to pay $120,000/year towards Blender development
CPU and GPU firm's sponsorship will help to fund Vulkan support within the open-source 3D tool.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019