Otoy releases first preview build of OctaneRender 2019
Support for Nvidia RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing provides 'up to 7.5x' rendering speed boost.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
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Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2018 public release
Subscriber update to the Cinema 4D particle simulation tool promises 16x faster particle collisions and 2.5x faster fluid sims.
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.2
Terrain rendering times cut by up to 4x, plus new option to use a render as a projected texture on export.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1806
Update to 3D tracking software boosts performance 'an order of magnitude'; adds new tools to help track longer shots.
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
Corel ships Painter 2019
Digital painting app gets dark UI theme; new Stamps brush type aimed at concept art. Other brushes now 'up to 75%' faster.
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
Chaos Group launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
Now shipping: Next big update to the renderer officially launches. See the key features and price changes here.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2018.1
Texture painting tool gets new, decluttered UI, better 4K painting performance, option to drag and drop materials.
Friday, March 16th, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2018.1
Big VFX-focused update to the material authoring tool adds UDIM workflow, 30% speed boost when opening large assets.
Monday, March 12th, 2018
Blender 2.79a is here
Open-source 3D software gets over 200 bugfixes, plus 10% speed boost to Cycles renders when using CUDA GPUs in Windows.
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
Robert McNeel & Associates ships Rhino 6 for Windows
Long-awaited update to NURBS modeller adds interactive viewport raytracing, node-based workflow.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
innoBright ships Altus 1.9
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.
Friday, November 3rd, 2017