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A sneak peek at Pixar’s RenderMan 24

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Ruchika Saini

Pixar’s RenderMan 24 was announced at RenderMan Art & Science Fair 2020 that took place virtually last week. In a ...

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Foundry teases Katana 4.0

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Kathleen Maher

The upcoming version puts powerful lighting tools right where artists want them. The Foundry’s Katana is a powerful tool for ...

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Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 6 for Cinema 4D

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Ruchika Saini

New Sky Model supports the sun being below the horizon for dawn/twilight; Corona Distance shader helps create “smart” materials. Chaos ...

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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Maya

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Ruchika Saini

Chaos Group has released V-Ray 5 for Maya. V-Ray has been used by 3D artists and Studios for animation and ...

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Omniverse—work anywhere, in any program, with your colleagues

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Jon Peddie

Expanding Pixar’s USD across industries. It hasn’t been too many years since the siloed effects of specialists in the graphics ...

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A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance

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GfxS staff

by Bob Cramblitt Views of SPEC/GWPG members.   Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card ...

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Foundry Katana gets significant overhaul

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Kathleen Maher

Intel and Foundry ally to update Katana convert it to a multithreaded program. As a result, developers see performance improvements of 2×–30×.

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HP’s AIO-32: the ultimate all-in-one?

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Jon Peddie

With the powered Display Port, and the HDMI out, you can drive external displays. HP has got everything right on ...

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AMD’s holiday gift to the Blender community

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Ruchika Saini

AMD to release an updated Radeon ProRender plug-in for Blender 2.81.  AMD’s Radeon ProRender is a physically-based rendering engine that is built ...

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Unity HDRP and all those rays

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Jon Peddie

Unity is evening up the playing field as its long-awaited HDRP brings realtime workflows to its developers.