Foundry has released Modo 13, bringing offline GPU Rendering with AMD’s Radeon Pro Render to the app. Pro Render is not dependent on a particular make of hardware and includes Bilateral and Median denoising algorithms.  (more...)

CGArchitect has released its annual poll of renderers used in production by the archviz industry, and perhaps provide an insight at where to expect they might head in the future. (more...)

Unity Technologies has released the first part of a new demo for Unity that demonstrates several new and recently added features of the games engine. In particular,  photorealistic humans are prominently featured alongside VFX, real time lighting, post processing and more.  This is not the final version, a longer cut is due out later this year and according to Unity the existing demo runs at 30 FPS at 1440p resolution on a "consumer class desktop PC". Watch it on YouTube.

Luma Pictures has released their latest VFX demo reel. Watch it on Vimeo.

Autodesk's Zap Anderson has released a new tutorial explaining PBR workflows in Max as well as tips for displaying PBR materials in the viewports. Watch it on YouTube.

At GDC Autodesk announced a collaboration with Rokoko to bring their library of professional motion capture clips to Maya. Currently available in Unity, thousands of clips will become available to Maya artists, with the majority costing between $3 - $6. Find out more on the Motion Library website and watch a trailer on YouTube.

In the latest Post-Post Podcast, David Gidali interviews Tyson Ibele about his life, career, games and, of particular interest to 3DS Max users,  TyFlow -  (more...)

NVIDIA has released a new demo that might make some CG artists break out in a nervous sweat. GauGAN is the latest in an increasingly long line of demos that show simple paintings turned into more accomplished artwork. In this example, like several of the others,  the tool uses generative adversarial networks or GANs, to convert segmentation maps into images using a deep learning model trained on a million images. Read more on NVIDIA's blog.