Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21
Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
AMD
Foundry ships Modo 13.1
It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.
Friday, August 16th, 2019
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender
AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Autodesk joins Khronos Group
FBX developer to join open standards body's 3D Formats Working Group to support development of the glTF file format.
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro
Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation
Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.
Wednesday, May 15th, 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
Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support
Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo
The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Meshroom 2019.1 is out now
Open-source photogrammetry tool adds support for source images captured using projected light, and now runs on non-Nvidia GPUs.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Maxon ships Cinebench R20
Popular free tool for benchmarking graphics workstations now properly stresses modern CPUs, but the GPU benchmark has gone entirely.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019