Autodesk ships Maya 2018.4 and Maya LT 2018.4
Now shipping: update adds Arnold region rendering in the viewport, improved Render Setup workflow.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
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Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system
'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Try V-Ray Cloud for free
Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
AMD unveils the Radeon Pro WX 8200
New Vega-based pro workstation GPU approaches the WX 9100 for compute power, but for just $999.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for Maya
Update improves the IPR and GPU rendering architectures, extends the new toon and hair shaders.
Saturday, August 11th, 2018
Foundry ships Nuke 11.2, NukeX 11.2, Nuke Studio 11.2
Workflow-focused update revamps the Tab menu; adds GPU support and mask input for Smart Vectors.
Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 2 for 3ds Max
New features include OpenVDB, FumeFX and Phoenix FD support, better interoperability with V-Ray.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Author PBR materials in your browser with Material-Z.com
Now officially live. Create texture maps and GLSL shader code with Braindistrict's neat online service.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Chaos Group launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
Now shipping: Next big update to the renderer officially launches. See the key features and price changes here.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Quixel releases Quixel Mixer 1.0 in beta
Quixel's intuitive tool for blending scanned materials now out in beta. Free to Megascans subscribers.
Friday, May 18th, 2018
Sneak peek: V-Ray Next for Maya
Video: see the new toon shader coming up in the next major update to the Maya edition of the renderer.
Friday, May 4th, 2018
Online documentation for V-Ray Next for Max goes live
Check out all the new features of the upcoming release, plus a demo of volume rendering on the GPU.
Friday, May 4th, 2018