Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.19
Check out the new features in the production renderer, and its Blender, Cinema 4D and Houdini plugins.
Thursday, September 14th, 2023
CPU rendering
Maxon releases Cinebench 2024
Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.3
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including faster GPU rendering, and Apple Silicon support for Houdini users.
Thursday, August 10th, 2023
Inkscape 1.3 ships
Open-source vector design tool gets new Shape Builder for creating complex forms, '2-4x' speed boosts on multi-core CPUs.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.17
Release 'lays the foundation' for non-photorealistic rendering in the GPU/CPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya and Houdini.
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
Pixar ships RenderMan 25.2
Check out the new features in the heavyweight production renderer, including new compositing modes in the Stylized Looks NPR toolset.
Friday, June 30th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.16
Update improves CPU rendering performance, adds render backplate system in 3ds Max, deformation motion blur in Blender.
Saturday, June 17th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2
Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.1
See the crazy motion graphics effects created by the renderer's distance shader, supported in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini & Maya.
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Review: Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED laptop
Find out how this Nvidia Studio laptop fares in real-world tests with 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and UE5.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 1
Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Maxon ships ZBrush 2023
First ever paid update to the digital sculpting software adds new 'Slime Bridge', revamps ZRemesher, and integrates the Redshift renderer.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023