V-Ray for Houdini

Today, Chaos Group releases the open beta for V-Ray for Houdini, bringing its Academy Award-winning rendering technology to every part of the VFX pipeline. With V-Ray for Houdini, artists can apply high-performance ray tracing to all of their creative projects, connecting standard applications like Autodesk's 3ds Max and Maya and Foundry'...

2018-08-10

FurryBall RT for free to use!

AAA studio announced stop development of their GPU renderer FurryBall... ;-( But they will give FurryBall RT for free to everybody for symbolic price 29,- EUR. This is a fair price for production prooved software used od many animated movies. Dear users, we are sorry to inform you, that we had ...

2018-06-08

MudRunner - Mud and Water simulation

Spintires:MudRunner doesn't use third-party game engine. The author of this blog post is lead developer of the game. Here we present technical details behind rendering of Mud and Water in Spintires:MudRunner, a driving simulation game, developed by Saber Interactive and published by Focus Home Interactive on ...

2017-11-17

Open Source Sony PlayStation 3 Emulator Now Supports Up To 10K Rendering

Emulator fans who want to play PlayStation 3 games on their computer may be familiar with the RPCS3 emulator that has been around for quite some time. The emulator has been updated and now supports high resolution rendering. The emulator can allow you to play favorite PS3 games at much higher resolutions ...

2017-10-15

GPU+CPU Hybrid Rendering to V-Ray 3.6 for Maya

New technology breaks hardware barrier, ensuring fast, consistent rendering; support for Maya 2018. Chaos Group released Sept. 12 V-Ray 3.6 for Maya, a major update to its Academy Award-winning production renderer. Used on television and film projects like Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Stranger Things, this update introduces ...

2017-10-06

FurryBall RT 1.5 and huge price cut

AAA Studio has cut the price of FurryBall RT again, making the cost of a new license €259 (around $310). A year’s maintenance now costs €99 when bought with a new license. It makes FurryBall the cheapest GPU render on the market with huge potential. The company has also just released ...

2017-09-21

Cinema 4D Release 19

The latest version of Maxon’s Cinema 4D is now available for purchase and shipping. Release 19 offers a fast, easy, stable and streamlined workflow designed to serve individuals and large studio environments. MAXON Cinema 4D R19 will make its European debut at the MAXON booth in Hall 7, K30 at IBC 2017, which will ...

2017-09-08

Blackmagic launches Fusion 9 with new VR tools

Blackmagic Design has announced a “major update” to its vfx, compositing, 3D and motion graphics software Fusion at this year’s Siggraph and has dropped the price to $299. The update, Fusion 9, features new VR tools, new keyer technology, planar tracking, camera tracking and multi user collaboration tools. ...

2017-09-01

Pixar Renderman 21.5.

Special previews of live rendering and a CPU + GPU solution accompany the announcement of RenderMan 21.5. EMERYVILLE, CA -- Pixar Animation Studios gave a special preview of upcoming technologies at the 2017 RenderMan Art & Science Fair at this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference, including new interactive capabilities for RenderMan 22 and work on “...

2017-08-25

NVIDIA Announces Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation Software

Today NVIDIA announced new virtualization software capabilities that turn Tesla GPU-accelerated servers into powerful workstations, Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation Software (vDWS). This new software aims to deliver organizations with the resources needed for demanding enterprise-wide virtual workspaces. NVIDIA is also announcing improvements to its NVIDIA GRID vPC for mobile workstations. Workstation Software (vDWS). ...

2017-08-18