November 20, 2017 | 9 comments
To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray. Read More »
November 3, 2017
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL. Read More »
October 25, 2017
Updated: neat plugin live links Substance Painter to Blender, Modo or Maya - and now 3ds Max and V-Ray. Read More »
October 4, 2017
Updated: Autodesk discusses how the new Fluids simulation toolset stacks up against Bifröst in Maya. Read More »
September 20, 2017 | 2 comments
Long-awaited physically accurate hybrid CPU/GPU renderer ships after six years in development. Read More »
August 29, 2017
Now shipping: update to render manager streamlines process of cloud rendering via Amazon's AWS. Read More »
August 18, 2017
Free educational licences now available. Price of commercial subscriptions halved when renting in blocks of five. Read More »
August 7, 2017 | 2 comments
Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech. Read More »
July 31, 2017
Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material. Read More »
July 26, 2017
Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns. Read More »
July 25, 2017
Viewport 2.0 becomes the primary viewport; new features added to the MASH motion graphics and Bifröst fluid simulation toolsets. Read More »
June 29, 2017
Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system. Read More »
June 27, 2017
Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange. Read More »
June 23, 2017
Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added. Read More »
June 22, 2017
3D texture painting software gets support for HBAO, new live edge wear system, 230 new alphas. Read More »
June 1, 2017 | 1 comment
Update improves GPU rendering, adds support for Arnold's alShader, OSL, scenes created in other versions of V-Ray. Read More »
May 26, 2017
New cloud-based rendering service will let users submit jobs directly inside 3ds Max and Maya. Sign up for the preview. Read More »
May 11, 2017 | 1 comment
New plugin version of Mental Ray is the first for 3ds Max 2018. Use it for free, if not for network renders. Read More »
May 9, 2017 | 6 comments
Firm reverses its policy on acquiring the renderer from Solid Angle last April, moves to rental-only pricing. Read More »
April 21, 2017
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available. Read More »
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