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V-Ray 5 for Unreal offers faster render times with Chaos Cloud

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Ruchika Saini

After coming out of beta and improving continuously with hotfix and non-hotfix updates, the latest version of Chaos’ V-Ray renderer ...

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SiliconArts released its ray tracing accelerator core to the Intel Solutions Marketplace

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Jon Peddie

Open source release of ray tracing examples, APIs, and drivers on GitHub with FPGA macro. SiliconArts is releasing a dedicated ...

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Adobe cuddles up with Blender with new plug-ins for Substance and Mixamo

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Kathleen Maher

The Substance brand gives Adobe considerably more reach. The wishlist for the Substance development team at Adobe is deep and ...

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MaterialX project starts in the incubation phase at the Academy Software Foundation

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Ruchika Saini

The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) has accepted MaterialX as its seventh Foundation-hosted project. ASWF was founded to provide a selected ...

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The Genie that makes entertainment great

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Jon Peddie

Every time you watch a video or listen to music on your phone, computer, or TV, you use a data ...

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Unity growing with trees and vegetation tools from Speedtree

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Kathleen Maher

The game engine giants are building huge portfolios of tools and content for their customers. They are acquisition machines.  Over ...

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Unreal buys Sketchfab

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Kathleen Maher

Sketchfab was founded in 2012 by Cédric Pinson, Alban Denoyel, and Pierre-Antoine Passet in Paris. They said they founded the ...

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The case for desktop workstations

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GfxS staff

By Neal Leavitt Jon Peddie Research (JPR) recently reported that the overall workstation market volume in Q1’21 grew about 27.7% ...

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RenderMan 24: Pixar’s latest release focuses on look development

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Ruchika Saini

A hybrid renderer, RenderMan XPU, impressive material layering system developed at Industrial Light & Magic, toolset for creating non-photorealistic renders ...

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Blackbird signs up Univision

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Kathleen Maher

Blackbird’s cloud-based video editing and distribution tools are designed to enable fast turnaround from capture to broadcast. The company is ...