Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.5
Big update to game engine adds animation retargeting, raytraced soft shadows, improved AO and SSS.
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
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Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana
New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Pixar releases RenderMan Studio 18
Maya version of the renderer gets improved relighting workflow, geometric area lights, better SSS.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta
Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.
Monday, November 4th, 2013
Pixar releases RenderMan Pro Server 18
New features include path tracing for faster re-rendering, geometric area lights, Beam Diffusion SSS.
Friday, June 28th, 2013
The Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.67
Update to the open-source 3D tool adds integration with the versatile Freestyle toon rendering engine.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Luxion releases KeyShot 4
Updated and now shipping: Intuitive renderer adds more features for general 3D users, including improved SSS and HDRI editing.
Friday, February 15th, 2013
AXYZ design releases an(i)ma 1.5
Low-cost crowd-simulation system for Max, Maya and Cinema 4D gets SSS material, overlay motion clips.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
CoreCG releases MentalCore 1.3
Update to Maya/mental ray toolkit adds new colour bleed SSS shader, support for SprayTrace renderer.
Friday, May 11th, 2012
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
Lollipop Shaders ships new free RenderMan shaders
Download the new choppy ocean and skin subsurface scatter shaders from its online library.
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Shade 12 now shipping
Dark horse all-round 3D package gets new UI plus some cool tools like built-in image-based modelling.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011