Volume

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

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

SideFX releases Houdini 19.5

Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma.

Thursday, July 21st, 2022

Sneak peek: Houdini 19.5

See a full list of new features in the next version of Houdini, including updates to creature effects, fluid simulation, Solaris and Karma.

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Otoy ships Sculptron 1.1

GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021