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New 'one-click' VR solution lets 3D artists and designers view KeyShot scenes in virtual reality, complete with simple built-in interactions.

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.

Monday, April 29th, 2019

New architectural visualisation platform converts 2D AutoCAD and Revit floorplans into complete 3D environments for final rendering.

Saturday, April 27th, 2019

Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Video: see footage created with the firm's cool-looking new 3D volumetrics tool for After Effects.

Friday, April 12th, 2019

3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019

Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Master Isotropix's powerful set dressing, look dev and rendering software with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Saturday, April 6th, 2019

3D app for graphic designers gets support for cloud rendering and Substance materials, but the old V-Ray render engine has gone.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Discover how to use Houdini's powerful terrain-generation tools with Gnomon's detailed tutorial.

Friday, March 29th, 2019

New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019