Effective TDs ships Storm 0.5
Big update to the standalone fluid simulation tool adds new smoke solver, option to upres sims, and 'complete procedural VDB toolkit'.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
NVIDIA
Khronos Group finalises radical new OpenCL 3.0 spec
New spec aims to reboot the GPU compute API for a new generation of CG tools. SDK now available.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Marmoset unveils Toolbag 4.0
Next big update to the popular real time rendering toolkit for games artists to support RTX-accelerated ray tracing and texture baking.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
Sneak peek: V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Updated: early registration now available for the beta of the next major version of the C4D renderer.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 GPUs
Check out the key specs of the Ampere cards, including GPU ray tracing in Blender, Arnold, V-Ray.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Nvidia unveils Omniverse Machinima
Upcoming app will let users create 3D animations based on games assets using new AI-driven tools.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.90
Latest update to the open-source 3D app brings major changes to sculpting, rendering and simulation.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
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
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