Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support

Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.

Monday, April 8th, 2019

Sneak peek: Blender 2.8 new principled hair shader

Neat new Cycles shader is based on work done by Disney for Zootopia, also used in V-Ray Next.

Monday, July 23rd, 2018

Blender add-on mimics the PxrDisney shader in Cycles

Updated: Onelvxe Studios' add-on mimics RenderMan's 'ubershader' in Blender. Now a paid-for product as well as a free beta.

Tuesday, July 19th, 2016

Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6

Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

Isotropix ships Clarisse 5.0

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship

Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

Foundry releases Katana 3.6

Check out the new snapping options in the lighting and look dev tool, and the new toon shading system in its 3Delight NSI renderer.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2020

Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2

Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.

Monday, April 6th, 2020

Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP5

Shot layout and look dev tool gets new firefly filtering system, better handling of Light Path Expressions.

Friday, December 27th, 2019

Check out Muhammad Etman's Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool 2.0

FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

LuxCoreRender 2.2 ships

Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Check out the new features in Blender 2.79

Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5

Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.

Friday, April 21st, 2017