Chaos Group has announced an update to its V-Ray 5 benchmarking application. The program has a new look and now includes 3 tests: V-Ray-CPU compatible, measured in vsamples; V-Ray GPU CUDA-GPU and CPU compatible, measured in vpaths; and V-Ray GPU RTX- NVIDIA RTX GPU compatible, measured in vrays. According to Chaos Group, the new tests[…..] […]
Maya 2020.4 marks a major milestone for visual programming in Bifrost for Maya. With a focus on bringing richer, procedural workflows to more areas of your pipeline, we’ve added powerful scattering, instancing, volumetrics, and FX capabilities to Bifrost. This update also brings you the latest version of Arnold for a faster, more creatively engaging rendering[…..] […]
Acclaimed Latin American animation studio 3DAR, leading interactive animation house Baobab Studios, and Facebook’s Oculus, are pleased to announce the wide release of the original virtual reality production, Paper Birds: Part 1, exclusively on the Oculus Quest on December 10th. The animated VR film, which had a successful world premiere run at Venice Film Festival[…..] […]
Autodesk previewed what it pitched as “the future of production management” at its Autodesk University user event recently, in the shape of three new technologies due in future releases of Shotgun. The three features – Story-in-Context, Generative Scheduling and Asset Lifecycle Management – link the production-tracking system with the timelines of editorial software, introduce machine-learning-based[…..] […]
HOOPS Visualize and HOOPS Exchange deliver strong visualization capabilities for point clouds, CAD files, and other 3D data Tech Soft 3D, the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits， announces that FARO, the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement, imaging, and realization technology, has expanded their use of HOOPS toolkits HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS[…..] […]
Intel and Google Cloud today announced their collaboration to simplify enterprises’ ability to adopt and deploy cloud-first business models using their existing on-prem, self-managed hardware. The two organizations co-developed reference architectures optimized for the now-generally available “Anthos on bare metal” solution. Targeted at data center and edge computing use cases, customers can leverage the reference[…..] […]
After months of intensive development, the Forest Pack 7 beta is out now. Be one of the first to try it out and read on to discover what’s new! Forest Pack 7 Beta 1 adds a host of new features to make 3ds Max’s leading scattering plugin even more powerful, pushing it beyond traditional scattering[…..] […]
DevTools from Visual Kinematics add significant CAE capabilities to Tech Soft 3D’s SDK portfolio, including mesh generation, solvers, and CAE visualization & interoperability tools Tech Soft 3D, the leading provider of engineering software development kits (SDKs), recently announces that it has acquired Visual Kinematics (VKI), maker of DevTools, a suite of component software development kits[…..] […]
Red Giant has released Magic Bullet Suite 14.0, the first major update to its suite of colour grading tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro in over four years. The Looks plugin gets a new LUT browser, Channel Mixer and interesting Color Remap and Huenity tools; while the Colorista plugin gets new LUT and presets[…..] […]
Maxon has released the first public beta builds of both the new Blender integration plugin for Redshift, its GPU production renderer, and for the new Metal-native version of Redshift for current Macs. Both open betas are available with Redshift 3.0.33, the latest version of the software. New Blender integration plugin makes it possible to[…..] […]
