AWS releases Deadline 10.3
Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
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Substance 3D Designer's creators win Sci-Tech Awards
Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager.
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
Amazon open-sources Krakatoa, XMesh, Frost, Stoke
Volumetric rendererer and particle tools for 3ds Max and Maya now free via an Apache 2.0 licence.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
Amazon makes AWS Thinkbox software available free
Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021
See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Check out Pulze's promising new 3ds Max Render Manager
Neat app auto-detects common 3ds Max plugins and performs 'sanity checks' to fix common V-Ray and Corona errors.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Asolve launches Render Node Monitor 2.0
New cloud-based 3ds Max render management system is aimed at freelancers and smaller studios.
Monday, December 24th, 2018
PipelineFX ships Qube! 7
Renderfarm management tool gets fast new Postgres-based backend architecture. Supervisor licences now free to download and use.
Monday, June 11th, 2018
PipelineFX releases Qube! 6.10
Renderfarm manager's new online analytics reports let render wranglers monitor site stress and system load on a per-minute basis.
Thursday, July 6th, 2017
PipelineFX ships Qube! 6.9
Renderfarm manager adds support for Redshift and Katana; new option to pay for extra licences on a per minute basis during crunch periods.
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Shoran Software releases RenderPal V2 2.14
Renderfarm management system adds support for Redshift, option to set defaults individually for renderers.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2016