Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2304
3D tracking app gets new options for solving shots with anamorphic distance and with focus breathing.
Monday, April 17th, 2023
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2023.5
Check out the new features in the suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Nvidia releases new $599 GeForce RTX 4070 GPU
See how the lowest-priced Ada Lovelace GPU to date performs in graphics tools like Omniverse.
Friday, April 14th, 2023
AMD unveils Radeon Pro W7900 and W7800 GPUs
Check out the key specs and benchmark scores for AMD's first RDNA 3 GPUs for pro CG work.
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Autodesk releases Mudbox 2024
No changes to the sculpting app beyond a new Mac installer, but the price of subscriptions rises again.
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2024
Check out the latest workflow changes to the character animation and mocap data editing software.
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Tutorial: Introduction to Maya for Animators
Get started in characxter animation with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly introduction.
Monday, April 10th, 2023
Sneak peek: Chaos Scatter in V-Ray for Maya
Chaos's versatile object scattering tool is coming to the Maya edition of the renderer. See a demo here.
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.14
Production renderer gets new sky model, new Flakes shader for car paint, new Renderview Backplate, and more updates to Redshift RT.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Maxon releases Spring 2023 Red Giant updates
Check out the new tools in Maxon's Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and VFX suites of effects plugins.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.1
Material authoring and 3D capture software gets new Paint Warp filter to straighten scanned textures.
Friday, March 31st, 2023
Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya v4
Maya hair plugin's Graft Grooms system makes it possible to create entire hair grooms in a few clicks.
Friday, March 31st, 2023