CG Channel

Blender

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Interesting new tool lets users link cloners, particles, fluids and volumetrics and see the results rendered on the fly.

Thursday, September 20th, 2018

Open-source app syncs geometry, lights and cameras between Unity and 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and MotionBuilder.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.

Monday, September 10th, 2018

See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.

Monday, August 20th, 2018

SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

New Vega-based pro workstation GPU approaches the WX 9100 for compute power, but for just $999.

Monday, August 13th, 2018

Neat new Cycles shader is based on work done by Disney for Zootopia, also used in V-Ray Next.

Monday, July 23rd, 2018

New site provides high-resolution scanned textures of environment materials under a CC0 licence.

Thursday, June 21st, 2018

Free update to tree generation tool adds new controls for dead branches, plus big improvements to workflow and simulation quality.

Monday, June 4th, 2018

Open-source renderer gets faster hybrid and spectral rendering, support for resumable renders.

Monday, May 14th, 2018

Code fork intended to make Blender's interface more intuitive to use hits its first official release.

Monday, May 14th, 2018

Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.

Monday, April 30th, 2018