Maxon releases Redshift for AMD in public beta
Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.
Monday, June 27th, 2022
Metal
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2022.5
Suite of effects plugins gets more lens flares and light leaks; multi-GPU support in DaVinci Resolve.
Saturday, May 28th, 2022
Michael Gibson unveils MoI 5
Intuitive NURBS modelling software gets new dark UI theme, SVG import/export, native M1 support. Now in beta for users of MoI 4.
Monday, May 16th, 2022
Matt Puchala releases Axiom 2.2 for Houdini
GPU-accelerated sparse gaseous fluid solver gets new profiling tools. Native Metal support now in beta.
Tuesday, April 12th, 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
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1
Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library
New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Maxon ships VFX Suite 2.1
See what's new in this performance-focused update to Maxon's suite of After Effects plugins for common VFX tasks.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021
See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
Otoy unveils Octane 2022
Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
Check out the new features in Blender's Cycles X renderer
See how the major rewrite of the renderer has evolved from initial alpha to its release in Blender 3.0 next week.
Thursday, November 25th, 2021
Magic Bullet Suite 15.1 ships
Update to Maxon's colour correction plugins lets users apply looks inside Unreal Engine as well as compositing and editing apps.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2022
Check out the new tools in the digital sculpting software - from major features like Bas Relief and BevelPro to five hidden gems.
Thursday, November 18th, 2021