Chaos Group ships V-Ray for Softimage
New Softimage port of the industry-standard renderer now out of beta and available for use.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
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Chaos Group releases update to V-Ray for Maya 2.0
Free upgrade adds dedicated new hair material, improvements to GPU-based interactive preview renderer.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
RandomControl releases Arion 1.6
Second major update to software in three weeks offers support for rendering scenes of infinite size.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Thinkbox ships Deadline 5.1, Krakatoa MX 2.0
Render-management system and particle renderer get shiny new updates, just in time for Christmas.
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Chaos Group ships update to V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max
Free update adds native support for Ornatrix hair, improved fur rendering, expanded GPU-based workflow.
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.61
Update incorporates the new GPU-accelerated Cycles raytracing engine into the open source 3D app.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
RandomControl adds SSS to Arion renderer
Version 1.5.1 of hybrid CPU/GPU renderer also adds 'state of the art' BRDF system, real-world emitters.
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
LuxRender team launches new developer blog
We're not dead: we just need to talk about the new features more, admit creators of open-source renderer.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
AAA Studio cuts price of FurryBall by 50%
Temporarily, at least. Purchase the GPU-based Maya renderer before 12 December and save $670.
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Luxion ships KeyShot 3
Easy-to-use photorealistic renderer adds intriguing new no-keyframe system for technical animation.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Refractive Software unveils OctaneRender for 3ds Max
New plugin to enable artists to use the physically accurate GPU-based renderer directly inside 3ds Max.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
MachStudio Pro developer StudioGPU shuts up shop
Developer of GPU-accelerated renderer takes website offline - but app can still be downloaded for free.
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Abvent ships Artlantis 4
Standalone architectural renderer gains new radiosity engine plus iVisit 3D panorama-creation tools.
Monday, October 17th, 2011