AAA studio releases FurryBall RT
Now shipping: Major rewrite of GPU-based Maya renderer boosts speed, but temporarily removes 3ds Max and C4D support.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
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Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015
Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Monday, July 6th, 2015
E-on ships Vue Infinite 2015 and Vue xStream 2015
Updated: Features include a new NPR renderer, GoZ support. Free Personal Learning Edition out now.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
Check out the new features in Blender 2.75
Updated, now shipping: Big update adds stereo rendering, proper support for AMD GPUs in Cycles.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
Adobe: the tools we've had to take out of AE CC 2015
Ongoing overhaul of the core code has unintended consequences for After Effects' existing functionality.
Friday, June 19th, 2015
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.8
Updated: Now officially shipping. New downloadable .exe file for the UE4 Kite demo due this week, too.
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
Marmoset releases Toolbag 2.07
Turn models into photorealistic 3D presentations to view in a browser with the new Marmoset Viewer.
Friday, June 5th, 2015
The Foundry ships NPR 2 Kit for Modo
Add-on for creating stylised render effects gets new XToon shader, options for blending in indirect lighting and reflections.
Friday, June 5th, 2015
10 tips for using Maya's XGen in production
Digital Domain's Stefano Giorgetti provides his tips for making best use of Maya's instancing system.
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Gnomon releases Sci-Fi Costume Design in ZBrush
Speed up your concept design workflow with X-Men veteran Luca Nemolato's detailed training video.
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Open source devs criticise Apple's OpenCL support
OpenCL drivers for OS X 'broken', Apple 'ignoring its creative users', say LuxRender and Blender devs.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
The Foundry reveals the five key problems of VR
See video of its virtual reality tech here - including a new raytracing renderer written inside Nuke.
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Eye candy: Next Limit's new Maxwell Render reel
See a 150-second run-down of the best new architectural stills created using the physically based renderer.
Friday, April 17th, 2015