29, /January 2021
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2021.1
Use Substance Designer to create procedural models, not just procedural materials
For artists working in game development or visual effects, the biggest change in Substance Designer 2021.1 will probably be the option to export 3D geometry from the viewport....
26 /January 2021
Shutterstock to acquire TurboSquid for $75 million
One of the giants of the stock image market is to acquire the giant of the stock 3D model market: Shutterstock is to buy TurboSquid for $75 million in cash.
The deal, which is due to close next month, will make Shutterstock the world’s largest online 3D marketplace....
20 /January 2021
Sneak peek: Chaos Group’s R&D work on V-Ray’s VRay Mtl
Chaos Group CTO Vlado Koylazov has posted two new videos on his YouTube channel showing off R&D work on VRayMtl, the standard material in V-Ray, the firm’s production renderer.
At least some of the functionality – improved translucency when rendering skin or similar materials – is expected to be available in the next update to V-Ray 5....
26, /November 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.91
he Blender Foundation has shipped Blender 2.91, the latest update to the open-source 3D software.
The release further consolidates on key features in Blender 2.8, expanding the software’s physics-enabled cloth sculpting toolset, and introducing new ways to edit volume objects....
2 /September 2020
Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 GPUs
Nvidia has unveiled the GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090, its next-generation GeForce RTX 30 Series of gaming GPUs, based on its new Ampere GPU architecture.
The firm pitches the Ampere cards as a significant advance on their predecessors, describing even the mid-price RTX 3070 as faster than the previous flagship model, the RTX 2080 Ti....