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Imagination announces Series2 raytracing boards

New OpenRL cards will accelerate Caustic Visualizer real-time raytracing plugins for Max, Maya.

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Eye candy: cool real-time raytracing in DirectX 11

See some nice real-time caustics and DoF, then download the Rigid Gems demo and try it for yourself.

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Autodesk buys Numenus raytracing technology

Company acquires staff and code from the developer of the RenderGin NURBS rendering software.

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Blender

Long-awaited new edition of V-Ray integrates the production renderer natively in Blender. Check out its features, its limitations, and its price.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

D5 Render 2.10 adds real-time path tracing

Major update to Dimension 5's real-time visualization software adds experimental path tracing system. Check out the other new features.

Thursday, March 6th, 2025

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.5

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

See Disney's Moana island data set ray traced on a single AMD GPU

Multi-billion-primitive scene was rendered on a Radeon Pro W7900 via a fork of the pbrt renderer using AMD's HIP RT 2.2 ray tracing library.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

Check out cloud-based real-time ray tracer Felix Render

Online platform lets artists render even complex architectural scenes on laptops and low-end machines.

Monday, July 17th, 2023

F3D 2.0 is a free, lightweight ray traced 3D model viewer

Neat open-source tool displays 3D models or point clouds in common formats on Windows, Linux, macOS.

Thursday, May 4th, 2023

DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for SketchUp Update 2

SketchUp renderer gets new scattering and decal systems, big update to real-time render mode V-Ray Vision.

Friday, November 5th, 2021

Arnold and V-Ray win Engineering Emmy Awards

Renderers win primetime Emmy Awards alongside crowd simulation tools Massive and Golaem Crowd.

Monday, October 11th, 2021

hdRstr ray traces thousands of area lights in real time

Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

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Get 350+ free assets for building a fantasy town in Unreal Engine

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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Blender

Long-awaited new edition of V-Ray integrates the production renderer natively in Blender. Check out its features, its limitations, and its price.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Download three free assets from terrain kitbash library Terra xL

Get three 3D scanned mountains from the neat new asset library for kitbashing environments for VFX and concept art. Commercial use.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Check out unusual open-source vector design tool Graphite

Promising free app combines the ease of layer-based workflows with the power of a node graph. More bitmap editing tools planned, too.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Open-source tool Infinigen Indoors generates procedural 3D interiors

Updated: free Blender-based tool generates 3D interiors, from rooms to entire houses. Check out its new Infinigen-Sim toolset.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

How North of Now created holo doubles for Kaytranada's 'Witchy'

Discover how the video for the Grammy-nominated track was created with KeenTools' FaceBuilder and FaceTracker for Nuke.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

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