Nvidia launches the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
New $399 8GB card outperforms the old RTX 2080 Super in Arnold, Blender, Redshift and V-Ray 5.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
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Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5
Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 GPUs
Check out the key specs of the Ampere cards, including GPU ray tracing in Blender, Arnold, V-Ray.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Sneak peek: ZBrush 2021
See the new features in Pixologic's sculpting software, including better instancing and poly modeling - and an eye-catching set of cloth tools.
Thursday, July 23rd, 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
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.83 LTS
The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon Pro VII and Infinity Fabric Link Bridge
Check out AMD's new top-of-the-range workstation GPU and its answer to Nvidia's NVLink Bridge.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Anastasiy ships MagicPicker 7.1
Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets new HUD mode, plus improved performance on older hardware.
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Foundry ships Modo 13.1
It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.
Friday, August 16th, 2019
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation
Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019