Quixel ships Quixel Suite 2.0
Updated, now shipping: Games texturing toolkit gets powerful 3D painting and map baking options. See the new features in action here.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Arnold
Solid Angle releases Arnold 4.2.11
Update increases render speed by 'up to 4x' on interior scenes, adds new global shader override option.
Thursday, November 12th, 2015
Review: HP ZBook 17 G2 mobile workstation
Jason Lewis puts HP's top-of-the-range pro mobile system through a battery of real-world tests.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
Download innoBright's free tech preview of Altus 1.0
Intriguing new tool denoises Arnold, V-Ray, Corona and Redshift renders, generating clean images 2-9x faster.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
Download DGDM's free Maya SLiB | Browser plugin
Updated: Handy add-on offers a simple way to browse shaders. New Pro edition lets you export them, too.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Fabric Software ships Fabric Engine 2
Create complex CG tools without coding with Fabric's long-awaited new visual programming system.
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold 4.2.9
Core renderer gets support for refractive dispersion, better volumetrics. Maya plugin gets initial support for Bifrost.
Monday, September 21st, 2015
Blackcore releases ExplosiaFX for Softimage
New plugin lets users create voxel-based gaseous fluid effects using Softimage's ICE toolset.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
Google relaunches Zync render service in beta
VFX-friendly online service now available on Google Cloud Platform. Sign up to get $800 in free credits.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Substance Painter 1.5 and Substance Designer 5.2 ship
Both Allegorithmic texturing tools get export presets for V-Ray, Arnold, Redshift and Corona; new viewport display options.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold for Katana
KtoA plugin now officially shipping. Price of Arnold itself now down to $790 for a node-locked licence.
Friday, August 7th, 2015
AAA studio releases FurryBall RT
Now shipping: Major rewrite of GPU-based Maya renderer boosts speed, but temporarily removes 3ds Max and C4D support.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Artixels ships Escher 1.2
Relight even images rendered with DoF or motion blur with this nifty set of 'deep relighting' tools for Nuke.
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015