AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
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Autodesk ships Flame 2022
Compositing, finishing and effects software gets new machine-learning-based camera tracker, NDI support for remote review sessions.
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
Autodesk ships Mudbox 2022
Third minor update in a row for the digital sculpting software adds a new Windows installer, but no new features or listed bugfixes.
Sunday, March 28th, 2021
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022
Iterative update to the 3D software updates key modelling tools like Smart Extrude, and the Bake to Texture system for games work.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022
Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2022
Motion-capture editing tool gets support for Python 3 and quite a range of workflow improvements.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1
Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Creators of Pixar and Disney's hair tech win Academy Awards
Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
Discover how a Gnomon Workshop tutorial is created
Follow instructor Eric Keller as he creates Introduction to Maya 2020, his detailed new Gnomon tutorial.
Friday, January 1st, 2021
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.4 and Maya LT 2020.4
Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, including a big update to its Bifrost toolset.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Nvidia launches the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
New $399 8GB card outperforms the old RTX 2080 Super in Arnold, Blender, Redshift and V-Ray 5.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020