Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
viewport rendering
J Cube releases Multiverse | USD 7.1 for Maya
Check out the new features in this sizeable update to the USD-native shot layout and look dev solution.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
AMD releases USD Hydra plugin for Blender 1.1
Free plugin for composing and rendering USD scenes in Blender can now export animated USD files.
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 1.2
Scene layout and rendering app gets new Project materials panel, real-time environment shadows.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
U-Render releases U-Render 2022.4 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering toolset, SSGI and multi-materials.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Nuke Indie 13.2
Compositing and editorial tools get support for NDI, OpenTimelineIO and new machine learning features.
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Wysilab ships Instant Terra 2.5
Terrain generator for games and real-time work gets new system for creating roads, deforming the land surface automatically to match.
Monday, March 14th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1
Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.
Monday, January 31st, 2022
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender
New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.
Monday, December 13th, 2021
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1
New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
SideFX releases Houdini 19
Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
U-Render releases U-Render 2021.9 for Cinema 4D
Physically based 'really real-time' renderer gets new Sheen effect to mimic the look of real-world fabrics.
Thursday, September 16th, 2021