Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles
Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
Cycles
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
See Blender's Cycles renderer running in the Houdini viewport
Nifty work from Tangent Animation makes Cycles a Hydra delegate in Houdini's Solaris look dev toolset.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.83 LTS
The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500
Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.3 and BlendLuxCore 2.3 ship
Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020
Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019