Pixar ships RenderMan for Blender
New RenderMan integration places the open-source 3D app on the same footing as Maya or Houdini.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
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Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU
Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Nvidia announces pricing and new plugins for Omniverse
Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Tech focus: Nuke's AIR machine learning framework
Neat toolset lets VFX artists train their own neural networks to automate repetive tasks like roto.
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0
Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create
Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Creators of Pixar and Disney's hair tech win Academy Awards
Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
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
Watch VIEW Conference 2020 online for free
Leading VFX and animation festival becomes an online event - and you can watch all the livestreams free.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta
USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Foundry releases Mari 4.6v4
See the new local space transform mode and updates to baking workflow in the 3D texturing tool. Now available on macOS again.
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Master Pixar-style facial animation for feature films
Watch The Gnomon Workshop's new video masterclass, recorded by Pixar veteran Victor Navone.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020