Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse
Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021
hardware-accelerated ray tracing
AWS unveils Open 3D Engine
Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
D5 Render 1.9 ships
Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.
Friday, May 28th, 2021
Nvidia announces pricing and new plugins for Omniverse
Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.
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
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.0
Real-time rendering toolkit gets new GPU-accelerated ray tracing system, new 3D painting toolset.
Monday, April 5th, 2021
Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create
Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Discover 10 key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.2
Read our pick of the new features in the game engine, from ray traced reflections to real-time compositing.
Monday, December 21st, 2020
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.0 for Blender
Free physically accurate renderer now offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing on new AMD GPUs.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Luxion ships KeyShot 10.0
Renderer gets new Light Manager, better cloth and caustic effects. KeyShot Pro users get new animation and Smart Export tools.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs
New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Download the first public demo of Redshift 3.0
New trial edition lets you test this major update to the GPU renderer, even if you aren't an existing user.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Sneak peeks: Redshift RT and Redshift for Blender
Videos: see the GPU renderer's powerful real-time hybrid render engine and new Blender plugin.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020