5 CG industry stories you may have missed in March 2022
Discover who Adobe and Autodesk have just bought, Intel's move into pro GPUs - and the 'world's smallest workstation'.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
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Nvidia's free Canvas app turns doodles into matte paintings
Updated: Canvas 1.2 update adds new style variations system to fine tune the look of generated images.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
See the first Threadripper Pro 5000 WX Series workstation
New Lenovo ThinkStation P620 will be the first place you can try the latest AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs.
Friday, March 11th, 2022
Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1
Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.
Monday, January 31st, 2022
Reallusion backs the Blender Development Fund
New tools to improve workflow between Blender and iClone and Character Creator due this year.
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation
Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
Linux Foundation launches the Open 3D Foundation
Founder members of new body to promote open-source games tech include Adobe, AWS and Intel.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Autodesk ships Flame 2022.1
Compositing and effects software gets new camera tracking features. Now certified for use on systems with AMD as well as Intel CPUs.
Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4
Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.
Monday, May 24th, 2021
The Blender Foundation unveils Cycles X
Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
iPi Soft releases iPi Motion Capture 4.4
Markerless mocap software suite can now stream motion capture data to Unreal Engine in real time.
Friday, March 26th, 2021