Katana

Maxon releases Redshift 2026.5

Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including support for Windows on ARM and hardware ray tracing on AMD GPUs.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2026

Pixar releases RenderMan 27.2

See the latest features in Pixar's production renderer, including new Stylized Looks nodes for artistic lighting and hatching effects.

Saturday, February 28th, 2026

Maxon releases Redshift 2026.3

Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated production renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya.

Monday, February 23rd, 2026

Foundry releases Katana 9.0

Heavyweight lighting and look development tool gets a new 'UsdSuperLayer' and a preview of Hydra 2.0 rendering.

Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.5

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including new shaders for non-photorealistic and motion graphics-style effects.

Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Pixar releases RenderMan 27.1

Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.

Sunday, December 7th, 2025

Maxon releases Redshift 2026.2

Check out the changes to the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, including updates to displacement.

Thursday, December 4th, 2025