AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs
New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
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Sneak peek: the Deform Stack in Otoy's Sculptron
Free GPU-based sculpting tool's new modifier stack will deform high-res meshes in near-real time.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
SideFX ships Houdini 18.5
Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Snappers unveils Snappers Wrinkles Designer
Crazy new Maya toolset will let you design wrinkles for 3D characters interactively and export to UE4.
Friday, October 16th, 2020
Lenovo releases 'world's first Threadripper Pro workstation'
Now shipping: see the prices and specs for the Lenovo P620 and AMD's Threadripper Pro CPUs.
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
J Cube unveils new standalone USD editing tool MUSE
Neat work-in-progress tool offers a 'fast, non-destructive' way to modify USD assets outside DCC apps.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Designer 2020.2
Material authoring software now updated to Substance Engine 8. Check out the new tools it brings.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
OctaneRender users to get World Creator for free
All part of a deal between Otoy and BiteTheBytes to link the GPU-based renderer and terrain generator.
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Nvidia unveils new RTX A6000 and A40 pro Ampere GPUs
Upcoming successors to the Quadro RTX 6000 and 8000 to double their GPU rendering speed.
Monday, October 5th, 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
Chaos Group teases new version of V-Ray for Blender
Facebook post hints at long-awaited public release of V-Ray with support for Blender 2.80+.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Wysilab wins Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra
Money will help fund development of an Unreal Engine live link plugin for the terrain generation software.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
Marmoset unveils Toolbag 4.0
Next big update to the popular real time rendering toolkit for games artists to support RTX-accelerated ray tracing and texture baking.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020