Rendering: Hardware Posted by Greg Corke - August 20, 2015 From laptop to desktop, render node to render farm, Greg Corke gives a back to basics guide to buying hardware…
Nvidia launches two new 8GB professional GPUs – the Quadro M4000 and Quadro M5000 Posted by Greg Corke - August 11, 2015 The new Quadro M5000 features 8GB of GDDR5 memory Nvidia has unveiled two new professional Quadro graphics cards to flesh…
Nvidia targets CAD and visualisation software developers with new design viz toolkits Posted by Greg Corke - August 11, 2015 2015 Harley-Davidson Street Glide rendered in Iray for Rhino. Production data courtesy of Harley-Davidson Motor Company Nvidia is ramping up…
Layer by layer Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 27, 2015 Ammar Kalo's Stratum chair skillfully combines shapes inspired by the natural world with advanced CNC milling and fabrication technologies, writes…
New model army Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 22, 2015 A look at work created by emerging young modelmakers and showcased at June's New Blades exhibition in London
Cool runnings Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 16, 2015 Just because fit and comfort must come first, aesthetics shouldn't be an also-ran. Tanya Weaver talks to members of the…
New technology helps turn MCAD models into BIM content Posted by Greg Corke - June 1, 2015 BIMobject BIMscript and BIMobject LENA are two new technologies designed to help manufacturers of building components turn their mechanical CAD…
Modo movie magic builds ‘real’ Interstellar spaceships Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 26, 2015 The CAD data was not only used to help build realistic props, but also to plan out the lighting and…
AMD FireRender – a new physically correct material and rendering technology for professional Posted by Greg Corke - May 19, 2015 AMD is going after a slice of the professional design visualisation market with its new GPU-optimised FireRender plug-in. The physically…
Pixar’s Renderman technology is now free to download Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 31, 2015 RenderMan is Pixar’s core rendering technology, and is now available for free RenderMan, Pixar’s core rendering technology for animation and…