Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
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Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3
Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Tech focus: Modo's new mPath render engine
Modo's new path tracer promises faster, more flexible renders than the default CPU engine. Discover how it works.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Nvidia backs Blender Development Fund
GPU firm's €120,000/year Patron level support will fund two more devs for the open-source 3D app.
Monday, October 7th, 2019
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Rhino Update 1
Rhino edition of the renderer gets new Cryptomatte render element, expanded support for Grasshopper.
Friday, September 27th, 2019
Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Unity 2019.2 ships
Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Houdini
Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Studio
Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2019.1
Intriguing update to the material authoring tool lets users 'go beyond PBR texture maps' when creating Substances.
Friday, May 10th, 2019
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019