Pixar ships RenderMan 21.5
Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
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Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5
Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.
Monday, July 31st, 2017
Golaem ships Golaem 6
Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Foundry partners J Cube to distribute Multiverse Studio
Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Basefount ships Miarmy 5.5
Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.
Friday, June 23rd, 2017
DGDM releases SLiB Leuchtkraft 1.6 for Maya
Updated: Nifty Maya lighting design plugin gets support for dome lights, option to import custom HDRIs.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
Golaem ships Golaem PLE
New free, time-unlimited edition lets artists try the Maya crowd simulation tool before they buy. Support for Redshift also added.
Monday, December 12th, 2016
Google adds Houdini and C4D support to Zync Render
New apps added to online render service alongside Maya and Nuke. GPU compute coming next year?
Monday, November 28th, 2016
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
Pixar releases RenderMan 21 Non-Commercial
Free version of Pixar's production renderer now available for learning, personal use, plugin development.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
Eye candy: Pixar's RenderMan 21 feature reel
See the renderer's new features illustrated via a series of beautiful clips from Piper and FInding Dory.
Monday, October 24th, 2016
The best new CG software from Siggraph 2016
We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
The Foundry releases Katana for Windows
Now shipping: Katana 2.5 makes powerful look dev tool available to non-Linux users for the first time.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016