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Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15
Now officially released: grading and editing app gets over 250 compositing tools from Fusion.
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AMD unveils the Radeon Pro WX 8200
New Vega-based pro workstation GPU approaches the WX 9100 for compute power, but for just $999.
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Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2
Update to the renderer adds support for texture baking, built-in Cryptomatte shaders, and a sheen effect for softly fuzzy surfaces.
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Try V-Ray Cloud for free
Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.
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Video: Chaos Group’s new real-time ray tracing system
'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.
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See the new features in Maya 2018.4 and Maya LT 2018.4
Next update to Maya to add Arnold region rendering in the viewport; improved Render Setup workflow.
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Otoy releases OctaneRender 4.0 RC1
First release candidate build of the GPU renderer adds light linking, volume denoiser, true ubermaterial.
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Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1’s Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
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Nvidia unveils Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 GPUs
'World's first ray tracing GPUs' based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture will ship later this year.
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Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2019 for Unreal Engine
New integration promises UE4 users GPU-based light field baking and support for ORBX scenes.
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Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets support for AO, camera motion blur. Modo version now in public beta.
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Eye candy: IDV’s epic 2018 SpeedTree VFX showreel
Watch innocent CG trees meet their ends at the hands of superheroes, spacecraft crashes and King Kong.
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Neat tool Mush3D lets you sculpt on animation caches
Updated with new product name. Sculpt corrective shapes on Alembic caches, or add cloth or jiggle deformation.
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Epic Games ships free MotionBuilder Live Link for UE4
Free plugin streams mocap data from MotionBuilder to preview it inside Unreal Engine in real time.
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New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4
Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.
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Nvidia open-sources MDL
SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.
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Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.1
Texture map generation tool gets PBR support; option to create maps from source photos of 3D objects.
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Blender Foundation launches Blender Benchmark
See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.
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Discover how Epic Games designed Fortnite
Discover the game's art workflows at a free event at Gnomon's Hollywood campus next week. Watch free online.
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Lenovo unveils the ThinkPad P1
At just 1.7kg, the competitively specced new mobile graphics workstation is the 'thinnest, lightest and sleekest' ThinkPad in history.
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