Chaos Group releases Beta 3 of V-Ray Next for Maya
Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising.
Monday, September 17th, 2018
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Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20
Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini Reality Capture plugin as free beta
New photogrammetry plugin lets artists use RealityCapture's popular toolset directly inside Houdini.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
AMD unveils the Radeon Pro V340
Hefty new dual-GPU server card features 32GB of HBM2 memory and 7,168 AMD Stream processors.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Sneak peek: Houdini 17's new PolyDraw tool
See the new direct modeling system coming up in the next major release of SideFX's 3D animation software.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Sneak peek: Allegorithmic's spellbinding Project Alchemist
Video: Intriguing 'augmented digital material creation' tool will blend hand painting, parametric editing and AI workflows.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
Lenovo unveils the ThinkPad P1
At just 1.7kg, the competitively specced new mobile graphics workstation is the 'thinnest, lightest and sleekest' ThinkPad in history.
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4
Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2019 for Unreal Engine
New integration promises UE4 users GPU-based light field baking and support for ORBX scenes.
Wednesday, August 15th, 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
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
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