Get the new ArionBench CUDA benchmark tool
Torture your Nvidia card with RandomControl's Arion-renderer-based GPU benchmarking tool.
Friday, March 8th, 2013
performance
Basefount ships Miarmy 2.0
Sub-$1,000 Maya crowd-simulation system gets better animation blending; now up to 10 times faster.
Friday, March 1st, 2013
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's updated Nitrous viewport
'Will it be in 3ds Max 2014?' teaser video shows improved performance on multi-million-poly scenes
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
The Foundry ships Nuke 7.0
Popular compositor gains partial GPU acceleration, revamped 2D tracker, support for Alembic and OpenEXR 2.0.
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Autodesk lays off 500 staff
Developer cuts just under 7% of its work force, but continues to recruit for cloud and mobile services.
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
Massive Software unveils Massive 5.0
Crowd simulator gets speed boost, 3ds Max plugin. Read the full story on the Immersed in Movies blog.
Monday, August 13th, 2012
e-on software releases LumenRT 3 Review
Easy-to-use SketchUp visualisation tool gets animated plants, advanced materials, 10x boost in speed.
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 2.0
Maya crowd-simulation software gets new graphical AI-authoring system; speed boosted 15 times.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Luxion ships KeyShot 3.2
Update to real-time rendering tool improves materials workflow, adds support for Maya 2013 scenes.
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's updated Nitrous viewport
See the Grab Viewport command outperforming a software render when creating a preview animation.
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Side Effects Software releases Houdini 12
Update adds new geometry engine, new OpenGL 3 viewport, improved sims - and lots of lovely speed.
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Siggraph 2011: peek under the hood of the new Houdini
Check out Side Effects' videos of the turbo-charged new geometry engine and simulation tools in Houdini 12.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011