Maxon ships Redshift 3.0.46
GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
CUDA
AMD unveils Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600 GPUs
New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
Maxon ships Redshift for Mac
Updated: Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users can now run the renderer on Macs with M1 processors as well as AMD GPUs.
Friday, April 30th, 2021
The Blender Foundation unveils Cycles X
Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship
Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Tech focus: Nuke's AIR machine learning framework
Neat toolset lets VFX artists train their own neural networks to automate repetive tasks like roto.
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0
Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
Epic buys RealityCapture creator Capturing Reality
Photogrammetry app used for the Megascans library to be 'integrated into the UE4 ecosystem'. Prices cut.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store
Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
AXYZ design ships anima 4.1
3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.
Friday, December 11th, 2020