New Nvidia driver brings true DXR ray tracing to older GPUs
Free driver update extends DXR support on selected Pascal and Volta GPUs, including the GeForce 1060 to 1080 Ti.
Friday, April 12th, 2019
real time
Maxon buys Redshift
Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
IKinema releases Orion 2.0
Low-cost full-body mocap system based around HTC Vive hardware gets new 'system health tracker' to monitor data quality automatically.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22
Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Sketchfab's models of the month: March 2019
See the month's best real-time 3D models, including a stylish stylised take on Spider-Man's Doc Ock.
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Reallusion previews Unreal iClone Live Link
New plugin will let users stream animation from iClone to Unreal Engine for rendering in real time.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Check out Chaos, UE4's new 'Hollywood physics' system
Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.
Thursday, March 21st, 2019
Watch Rebirth, Quixel's stunning photorealistic short
The 90-second sci-fi clip was made using real-world scans of Iceland, compiled and rendered in UE4.
Thursday, March 21st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU
Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo
The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Eye candy: SideFX's 2019 Houdini games reel
See the best new real-time work created in Houdini, from mobile racing titles to Marvel's Spider-Man.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Sketchfab's models of the month: February 2019
See the month's best real-time 3D models, including some - quite literally - eye-popping character art.
Friday, March 1st, 2019