Blender's new Vulkan rendering backend has gone live
'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
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Adobe ships After Effects 24.0
Check out the new features in the compositing software, including the AI-powered Next-Gen Roto Brush and expanded OCIO support.
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer becomes first DCC app to support NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 and its AI-trained Ray Reconstruction denoiser.
Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Maxon releases Cinebench 2024
Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.5
Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Nvidia releases source code for its Neuralangelo AI model
Updated: New tech reconstructs 3D objects from video more accurately than current AI methods.
Tuesday, August 15th, 2023
Unity releases Ziva VFX 2.2
Maya muscle and soft tissue simulation plugin gets new CUDA-based GPU solver, plus option to visualise stretching in the viewport.
Thursday, August 10th, 2023
Kiri Engine now supports Neural Surface Reconstruction
Update to Android and iOS scanning app adds support for AI-based reconstruction of 3D objects.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Autodesk announces new generative AI tools in Maya
New AI services will let artists generate materials, textures or HDRIs inside Maya's LookdevX.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Nvidia unveils RTX 4000, 4500 and 5000 GPUs
New Ada Generation workstation cards include the 'most powerful single-slot GPU on the planet'.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps
Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.
Monday, August 7th, 2023
Pixar and partners launch Alliance for OpenUSD
New industry body aims to make USD an international standard for more than just visual effects work.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
Infinigen: a free generator for procedural 3D environments
Intriguing Blender-based tool can automatically generate 3D terrain, plants - and even rigged creatures.
Thursday, July 13th, 2023