Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200
Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
performance
Autodesk ships Maya 2019 and Maya LT 2019
Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
Nvidia announces $900 Quadro RTX 4000 GPU
Latest card in Nvidia's new range of 'ray tracing ready' GPUs has similar price to the old Quadro P4000.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Nvidia unveils Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 GPUs
'World's first ray tracing GPUs' based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture will ship later this year.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2018.1
Texture painting tool gets new, decluttered UI, better 4K painting performance, option to drag and drop materials.
Friday, March 16th, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2017.2
3D texture painting app gets new Anchor Points system for creating smart multi-layer materials, free live linking plugin to Unity.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017
Kolor releases Autopano Video 3.0
360-degree VR video stitching tool gets GPU acceleration, timecode, improved parallax compensation.
Monday, July 24th, 2017
Basefount ships Miarmy 5.5
Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.
Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Foundry releases Modo 11.0
New modelling options and support for OpenSubdiv 3.0, but the main news this time round is the new rental and maintenance plans.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Sneak peek: Mari 3.3
Corrected: Changes include option to re-edit paint already committed to a model. Radically decluttered new GUI due in a future release.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
NewTek previews LightWave Next
Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.
Thursday, March 16th, 2017
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: fluid simulator gets new FLIP solver for liquids, updated gaseous fluid solver, new forces.
Friday, March 10th, 2017