Check out the changes to the heavyweight production renderer, including updates to XPU, and interactive AI denoising in Blender.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Check out the changes to the heavyweight production renderer, including updates to XPU, and interactive AI denoising in Blender.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Epic Games has announced new subscription-based pricing for its key software products. See who the changes affect, and when they start.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Check out the new features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including a new production-ready Viewport 2.0 hair shader.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Chaos is working on the integration between its V-Ray renderer and the open-source 3D software 'right now', according to its latest livestream.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Read our run-down of the key changes in the largest ever update to Houdini, from character animation to rendering and machine learning.
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Now publicly released: new sub-project of MaterialX will let artists transfer materials seamlessly between Adobe and Autodesk apps.
Monday, November 6th, 2023
Change will let artists use apps like RenderMan or OctaneRender as viewport renderers inside Designer. Native MaterialX support also due.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Free node-based tool lets users author MaterialX materials for use in renderers like Arnold and Karma.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
New features in the USD-native layout and look dev app include shader network transfer to Katana.
Monday, July 24th, 2023
Check out the new features in the heavyweight production renderer, including new compositing modes in the Stylized Looks NPR toolset.
Friday, June 30th, 2023
3D animation apps get new Hydra for Maya render delegate, plus updates to the LookdevX toolset.
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
Check out the changes to the open standard for materials and look dev data, widely used in VFX software.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023