Vulkan 1.0 arrives: GPU drivers already available
See tech demos for the next-gen graphics API and download drivers for Nvidia and AMD GPUs here.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
OpenCL
The GIMP team announces GIMP 2.9
Big update to open-source image-editing tool adds support for 32-bits-per-channel colour, OpenEXR files.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
LuxRender 1.5 ships
Now officially shipping: Open-source renderer gets major speed boosts, support for AOVs. New 3ds Max exporter to come.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Next Limit releases RealFlow 2015
Fluid simulator gets new GPU based solvers, better OpenVDB support, new artist and TD tools.
Friday, July 31st, 2015
Check out the new features in Blender 2.75
Updated, now shipping: Big update adds stereo rendering, proper support for AMD GPUs in Cycles.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
Open source devs criticise Apple's OpenCL support
OpenCL drivers for OS X 'broken', Apple 'ignoring its creative users', say LuxRender and Blender devs.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
RE:Vision Effects ships new versions of RSMB, Twixtor
GPU-accelerated editions of motion blur and retiming plugins available for HitFilm, Natron and Autodesk compositing apps.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
The Pixel Farm releases PFTrack 2015
Camera-tracking tool gets new photogrammetry capabilities, Alembic support, GPU acceleration.
Friday, March 6th, 2015
Video: see Vulkan, OpenGL's replacement, in action
Watch an early alpha demo of the next-gen graphics API running on a PowerVR Rogue mobile GPU.
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
RE:Vision Effects releases DE:Noise 3
Newly GPU-accelerated tool fixes artefacts in film and video footage, and even GI flicker in 3D renders.
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.8
Unbiased renderer gets object scattering, big speed boosts. Pure GPU rendering coming in version 4.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Video Copilot releases Element 3D V2
Now shipping: update to After Effects 3D rendering plugin adds PBR, SSS, raytraced shadows, and more.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014