Otoy releases first preview build of OctaneRender 2019
Support for Nvidia RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing provides 'up to 7.5x' rendering speed boost.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
CUDA
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU
Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Meshroom 2019.1 is out now
Open-source photogrammetry tool adds support for source images captured using projected light, and now runs on non-Nvidia GPUs.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2018.1
GPU renderer gets new procedural systems Vectron and Spectron; Cryptomatte and NVLink support.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Get SideFX's free AliceVision photogrammetry plugin
New plugin makes it possible to use the open-source image-based modelling framework from Houdini.
Friday, February 22nd, 2019
E-Cycles speeds up Blender GPU rendering
New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Next Limit releases RealFlow | 3ds Max 1.0
Create RealFlow simulations inside 3ds Max with the new cut-down plugin version of the fluid simulator.
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Nvidia announces $900 Quadro RTX 4000 GPU
Latest card in Nvidia's new range of 'ray tracing ready' GPUs has similar price to the old Quadro P4000.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Next Limit releases RealFlow | Maya 1.1
First update to the Maya edition of RealFlow adds Visualizer daemon to preview forces in the viewport.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Nvidia unveils Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 GPUs
'World's first ray tracing GPUs' based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture will ship later this year.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15
Now officially released: grading and editing app gets over 250 compositing tools from Fusion.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018