Nvidia is releasing Mental Ray for Maya for free
For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
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Wacom unveils Cintiq Pro 13 and 16 pen displays
Updated: New pen displays offer high screen resolution and colour gamut and 8.192 levels of pressure sensitivity.
Saturday, November 5th, 2016
Maxon picks AMD's Radeon ProRender for Cinema 4D
OpenCL-based GPU render engine will be integrated into Cinema 4D over the next few release cycles.
Monday, October 31st, 2016
AMD announces new Radeon Pro 400 series mobile GPUs
New ultra-thin, power-efficient mobile workstation cards to debut in Apple's new 15" MacBook Pro.
Friday, October 28th, 2016
Microsoft unveils new 28" Surface Studio touchscreen PC
Massive new professional graphics PC to offer above-4K-res display. We analyse its full system specs.
Thursday, October 27th, 2016
Act-3D unveils Lumion 7
Video: See the teaser for the real-time visualisation tool. No feature list, but it's out next week.
Thursday, October 27th, 2016
VortechsFX unveils Eddy for Nuke
Videos: Nifty new GPU-based software puts gaseous fluid solver and renderer inside Nuke.
Monday, October 24th, 2016
Next Limit ships Maxwell 4
Now shipping: physically accurate renderer gets CUDA-based GPU render engine. Relighting system Multilight now a standalone tool.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Sneak peek: Vue 2016
Updated: Latest preview shows the landscape generation software's new heightfield terrain system.
Sunday, October 9th, 2016
Navié unveils Effex 2.8
Updated: Cinema 4D fluid simulator to get new sound node; new APIC solver generates smoother liquid flow than standard FLIP solvers.
Friday, October 7th, 2016
The Foundry unveils Modo 10.2
Next week's update to the all-round 3D software to add schematic-free Booleans, extended procedural modelling, auto retopology system.
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Wacom unveils MobileStudio Pro 13 and 16 pen displays
Powerful touch-enabled Windows 10 tablets have 4K displays, offer 8,192 levels of pressure sensitivity.
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Blender's Cycles renderer is coming to Cinema 4D
Updated: X-Particles dev Insydium posts price info and full demo video for its upcoming Cycles 4D plugin.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016