Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.5
Hybrid renderer gets new advanced material options, plus support for Allegorithmic's Substances.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Blender
See the proposed dev schedule for Blender 2.8
Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015
Rui Batista releases PolyPaint 1.5 for Cinema 4D
Handy 3D paint tool lets C4D users import RGBA vertex colour data from apps like ZBrush, or export it to Unity.
Monday, July 20th, 2015
Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015
Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Monday, July 6th, 2015
Check out the new features in Blender 2.75
Updated, now shipping: Big update adds stereo rendering, proper support for AMD GPUs in Cycles.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
Eye candy: Blender's 2015 Cycles demo reel
See the best new work created with Blender's raytracing engine, from photorealistic visualisation to charming CG shorts.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
Open source devs criticise Apple's OpenCL support
OpenCL drivers for OS X 'broken', Apple 'ignoring its creative users', say LuxRender and Blender devs.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
Blender 2.74 ships
Check out the Viewport 2.0-style viewport AO and depth of field; better hair dynamics and planar tracking.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Is this the most demanding 3D benchmark test yet?
Torture your CPU with a 240MB scene file from new Blender Institute CG short Cosmos Laundromat.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Free Blender shader turns 3D models into pixel art
Toshihiro Kushizaki's Pixel Art Shader renders any polygonal model as a retro-style BMP image.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
LuxRender 1.4 ships
Free physically based renderer moves to new core architecture; renders 'at least two times faster'.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Mesh multiphysics systems in Blender with CubeSurfer
New work-in-progress add-on surfaces particle simulations ranging from water to wet snow.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Bullet and Naiad creators win Academy Awards
This year's Sci-Tech 'Oscars' reward advances in destruction physics, voxel data and digital vegetation.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015