SideFX unveils Solaris
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Universal Scene Description
Intel unveils HdOSPRay and OpenVKL
New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5
Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates
Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Foundry releases Katana 2.6
Look dev and lighting tool gets new API to lay groundwork for native viewer based on Pixar's Hydra real-time rendering architecture.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
Fabric Software releases Fabric Engine 2.5
Platform for developing CG tools gets revamped Tab Search, 'Kludge' API for incorporating external C++ libraries.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Epic Games unveils new VR editing tools in Unreal Engine
In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
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
Pixar open-sources its Universal Scene Description
Updated: New 'super Alembic' system for exchanging VFX scene data released officially. Plugins for Maya and Katana.
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Pixar's USD system: the new super-Alembic?
Universal Scene Description could help exchange entire production scenes between VFX pipeline tools.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013