Standard Surface shader

Master modelling, animation, lighting and rendering in Maya with this three-part series of tutorials.

Saturday, September 3rd, 2022

Renderer gets new post effects framework, physically correct nested dielectrics, improvements to USD support and Arnold GPU.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

Latest updates improve character rigging and animation workflows with keyframe and mocap data.

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

Otoy launches RNDR

Innovative 'distributed GPU render network' lets OctaneRender users earn credits by making their PCs available to others for rendering.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

Unity 2019.3 ships

Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Varied update adds support for simulations in cached playback; new retopology and rigging tools.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.

Friday, March 29th, 2019

Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.

Monday, March 18th, 2019