Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
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Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender for Blender 2.0 in open beta
Free GPU renderer gets support for AI denoising, adaptive sampling, hair rendering. New versions for 3ds Max & Maya, too.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
cebas ships finalRender Drop 3
3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Otoy reveals OctaneRender 2019 product roadmap
See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Sneak peek: Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max
Next update to add Intel's CPU-based, AI-driven render denoising technology and improved caustics.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2018.1
GPU renderer gets new procedural systems Vectron and Spectron; Cryptomatte and NVLink support.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Intel releases open-source denoiser Open Image Denoise
New render denoising system is CPU-based, AI-driven, hardware-agnostic. See it in action here.
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
NewTek ships LightWave 2019
Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for Cinema 4D
Popular renderer now officially available for C4D as well as Max, after four years in development.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender
Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018