Foundry ships Modo 17.0
Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and rendering app in the first major update since Foundry's reboot of its development strategy.
Monday, March 4th, 2024
GPU rendering
NVIDIA unveils new RTX 500 and RTX 1000 pro laptop GPUs
New 4GB and 6GB cards round out the low end of the Ada Generation GPUs for mobile workstations. Check out their other key specs.
Monday, February 26th, 2024
Maxon releases Redshift 3.5.24
Production renderer gets native support for the hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology in Apple's new M3 processors.
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 2
Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.
Monday, February 19th, 2024
Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs
Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.
Friday, February 16th, 2024
NVIDIA launches $625 RTX 2000 workstation GPU
New small-form-factor 16GB card is the cheapest Ada Generation pro GPU. See how it performs in CG apps like 3ds Max, Maya and V-Ray.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Otoy backs the Blender Development Fund
OctaneRender developer becomes Blender's latest Corporate Patron, contributing at least €240,000/year to the open-source 3D software.
Friday, February 9th, 2024
See Disney's Moana island data set ray traced on a single AMD GPU
Multi-billion-primitive scene was rendered on a Radeon Pro W7900 via a fork of the pbrt renderer using AMD's HIP RT 2.2 ray tracing library.
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
NVIDIA unveils three new GeForce RTX 40 'Super Series' GPUs
See how the GeForce RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4080 Super outperform older cards in CG apps like Blender.
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.22
Update boosts performance in real-time render engine Redshift RT, including support for async shader compilation and DLSS upscaling.
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2024.2
3D animation and motion graphics tool gets new options for rigid body and Pyro simulations, new Key Reducer for mocap data.
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp Update 2
Check out the latest features in the renderer, including major updates to object scattering and support for Enmesh in V-Ray GPU.
Monday, December 11th, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.2
Real-time renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets better hair and fur rendering, better denoising and upscaling, new firefly filter.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023