Discover how to create a stylised female character
See DNEG's Crystal Bretz reveal her ZBrush, Maya & Mari workflows in Gnomon's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
look dev
Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2
Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP5
Shot layout and look dev tool gets new firefly filtering system, better handling of Light Path Expressions.
Friday, December 27th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 18
Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.6
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Learn Clarisse iFX from DreamWorks' Danny Janevski
Get started with Isotropix's layout and look dev tool at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus next week, or watch on Twitch.
Saturday, October 5th, 2019
SideFX unveils Solaris
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Houdini
Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Isotropix adds GPU ray tracing in Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2
It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Get started in Clarisse V4
Master Isotropix's powerful set dressing, look dev and rendering software with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU
Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Edit Blender scenes in VR/AR with new free tool BlenderXR
Place, edit and annotate assets in virtual and mixed reality with this neat open-source user interface.
Thursday, November 1st, 2018