Apple unveils 2023 Mac Pro
See how the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro workstation stacks up against old Intel models in After Effects, Maya, Houdini and Photoshop.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
Octane X
Otoy unveils Octane 2023
Next major update to the GPU renderer to feature Nanite-like 'meshlet streaming' system, long-awaited Brigade spectral kernel.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2022.1
First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
Otoy launches OctaneRender Studio+ subscriptions
Firm ditches perpetual licences of the GPU renderer, but adds MoI 3D and Cascadeur to its subs package.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
DaVinci Resolve and Octane X coming to iPad this year
Tablet editions of the video editing and colour grading tool and the GPU renderer due later in 2022.
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
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
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1
GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Blender 3.1 to introduce native Metal support in Cycles
New macOS backend unveiled as Apple becomes a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store
Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021
See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
Which CG applications support Apple's new M1 chips?
Discover which 3D, image-editing and rendering apps will support the first Apple Silicon processors when they ship next week.
Friday, November 13th, 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
Apple ditches Intel CPUs in Macs in favour of its own chips
See what the move to Apple Silicon will mean for CG tools like Maya, Photoshop, Blender and Octane X.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020