Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles
Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
look development
Foundry unveils Katana 4.0
Big update to the lighting and look dev tool to add new 'artist-focused' lighting workflows, support for multiple simultaneous test renders.
Monday, August 10th, 2020
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0.4
Big update cuts render times on modern multi-core CPUs; adds new IPR window for 3ds Max users, and new Cinema 4D scattering system.
Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Foundry ships Modo 14.1
3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.
Monday, July 27th, 2020
Epic Games will pay you $10,000 to learn Unreal Engine
New Unreal Fellowship program will pay VFX and games pros to do four weeks of online UE4 training.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
Foundry releases Mari 4.6v4
See the new local space transform mode and updates to baking workflow in the 3D texturing tool. Now available on macOS again.
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Chaos Group releases Project Lavina Beta 0.4
New tool for real-time ray traced previews of V-Ray scenes gets new animation editor, physical camera.
Thursday, July 9th, 2020
SideFX 'backports' new features to Houdini 18.0
Can't wait for Houdini 18.5? Check out the neat new topology transfer and rendering options available in Houdini 18 today.
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
See Blender's Cycles renderer running in the Houdini viewport
Nifty work from Tangent Animation makes Cycles a Hydra delegate in Houdini's Solaris look dev toolset.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Master professional V-Ray product rendering workflows
Discover how to create compelling marketing images in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Foundry releases Katana 3.6
Check out the new snapping options in the lighting and look dev tool, and the new toon shading system in its 3Delight NSI renderer.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
Master hair grooming with Yeti
Discover how to use the powerful Maya hair plugin in production with DreamWorks Animation hair lead Victor Javier Garza's full tutorial.
Friday, June 12th, 2020
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Houdini Update 1
First update to the Houdini edition of the renderer adds support for custom AOVs and debug shading.
Thursday, May 21st, 2020