Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.0 in beta
Shot layout and rendering software gets AI-based Generative Background system and faster, better-quality interactive previews.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
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Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
See After Effects' new multi-frame rendering features
Render previews or final frames faster on multi-core CPUs with the latest beta of the compositing app.
Wednesday, July 21st, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 18.0
Compositing app gets new real-time draft preview mode for 3D work. Separate beta build adds support for multi-frame rendering.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 17.5
Compositing app gets much-anticipated AI-driven Roto Brush 2.0 tool, plus motion-graphics-focused new 3D Design Space.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0.4
Big update cuts render times on modern multi-core CPUs; adds new IPR window for 3ds Max users, and new Cinema 4D scattering system.
Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Sneak peeks: Redshift RT and Redshift for Blender
Videos: see the GPU renderer's powerful real-time hybrid render engine and new Blender plugin.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.4
Landscape-generation software's new path tracing render mode is now officially production-ready.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
SideFX unveils Solaris
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Isotropix adds GPU ray tracing in Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2
It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max
Renderer gets support for GPU-based render denoising, better displacement, reduced RAM use.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018