Renderers
Arnold 5.3 beta with GPU rendering
Autodesk has announced the Arnold 5.3 beta which brings long awaited GPU rendering to the renderer. Other features include improvements to quality and performance for adaptive sampling, improved version of Randomwalk SSS mode, enhanced usability for Standard Surface, improvements to the Operator framework, better sampling of Skydome lights, and finally updates to support for MaterialX, allowing users to save a shading network as a MaterialX look, Find out more on Autodesk's website.