Get Quake II with real-time ray tracing and PBR materials
Now available to download: Nvidia updates the 1997 shooter for real-time path tracing on Turing GPUs.
Monday, June 10th, 2019
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Intel unveils HdOSPRay and OpenVKL
New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Check out free Nuke deep compositing toolkit DeepC
Handy set of open-source Nuke plugins makes deep compositing more accessible to smaller studios.
Monday, May 6th, 2019
Academy Software Foundation to host OpenEXR, OpenCue
Industry open-source initiative to 'support and drive collaboration' around OpenCue render manager.
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
Godot team ships Godot 3.1
Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Meshroom 2019.1 is out now
Open-source photogrammetry tool adds support for source images captured using projected light, and now runs on non-Nvidia GPUs.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Get CGWire's free production-tracking spreadsheets
Download readymade templates for scheduling and tracking CG projects. XLS, ODS and PDF format.
Sunday, February 24th, 2019
Get SideFX's free AliceVision photogrammetry plugin
New plugin makes it possible to use the open-source image-based modelling framework from Houdini.
Friday, February 22nd, 2019
Check out open-source production-tracking tool Kitsu
Web app aimed at small-to-mid-sized studios is described as 'better than Excel, cheaper than Shotgun'.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Intel releases open-source denoiser Open Image Denoise
New render denoising system is CPU-based, AI-driven, hardware-agnostic. See it in action here.
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Check out new open-source VFX render manager OpenCue
Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.
Friday, January 25th, 2019
LuxCoreRender 2.1 ships
Open-source physically based renderer gets new denoiser, plus option to pause and resume renders via the Blender plugin.
Monday, January 21st, 2019
Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender
Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018