AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.2 for Blender and Maya
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.
Monday, July 12th, 2021
GPU rendering
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 1.0
Intuitive new 'virtual photography' app features physics-aware layout tools, Vulkan-based GPU rendering.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
Discover 5 key new features from Blender 2.93 LTS
See the highlights of today's update to the open-source 3D app, from sculpting to 2D animation.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
Nvidia launches GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti
See how the new 'rendering powerhouses' stack up in CG apps like Arnold, Blender and V-Ray.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 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
Nvidia announces eight new professional Ampere GPUs
New workstation, server and laptop cards flesh out Nvidia's Ampere line-up. See their key specs here.
Monday, April 12th, 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
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.1 for Blender and Maya
Free GPU renderer get supports for Cryptomatte AOVs, and a new 16-bit Machine Learning denoiser.
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
Master the essentials of lighting and look development
Recreate realistic real-world materials in Maya and Redshift with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Monday, March 15th, 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
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
Discover 10 key new features from Blender 2.92
Discover the most important new tools in the open-source 3D app, from geometry nodes to APIC sims.
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021