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Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020

First update to the Houdini edition of the renderer adds support for custom AOVs and debug shading.

Thursday, May 21st, 2020

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Watch an eye-catching two-minute round-up of the best animation and VFX from China, Japan and Korea.

Wednesday, January 1st, 2020

Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch.

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.

Friday, January 25th, 2019

Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018