Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020
Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.
Friday, August 28th, 2020
NVIDIA
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 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
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Microsoft becomes latest tech giant to back Blender
Strings-free €30,000/year donation will help pay for new Blender staff - now including non-developers.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Sneak peeks: Redshift RT and Redshift for Blender
Videos: see the GPU renderer's powerful real-time hybrid render engine and new Blender plugin.
Tuesday, July 28th, 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
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1
Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Otoy releases free public preview of Octane X
Long-awaited Metal-native version of OctaneRender now available to Mac users with Otoy subscriptions.
Monday, July 20th, 2020
e-on software ships Vue R5 and PlantFactory R5
Check out the new features in the lastest updates to e-on's landscape and plant generation software.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2020
Round-up: Lenovo, Dell and HP's 2020 mobile workstations
See how the specs stack up for the latest ThinkPad, Precision and ZBook laptops for pro CG work.
Monday, June 22nd, 2020
10bit FX ships Notch 0.9.23.121
Big update with a small version number adds a new GPU-based chroma keyer to the real-time motion graphics and VFX software.
Friday, June 19th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2020.2
Material authoring tool gets neat new AI-trained Image to Material filter and new 2D painting toolset.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020