Standard Surface material

Check out the features in the latest beta build of Nuke, also including a new BigCat node for training larger custom AI models on VFX data.

Friday, December 12th, 2025

First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

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Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.

Monday, January 26th, 2026

Second major round of layoffs at the 3ds Max and Maya developer in a year will affect sales staff and is not "an effort to replace people with AI".

Monday, January 26th, 2026

Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation app, including a new rich text system and built-in video transcoding.

Saturday, January 24th, 2026

Dell becomes the first major PC manufacturer to back development of the open-source 3D software, contributing €30,000/year.

Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Thinkinetic's destruction plugin now lets users update the geometry or shatter pattern of the object being broken after a sim has been run.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026