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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

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

ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk launch OpenPBR 1.0

New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024

5 key features in Blender 4.0

Discover the latest changes to the open-source 3D app, from Geometry Nodes, Cycles and shading to the Viewport Compositor.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023

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

This neat free plugin lets you import OpenVDBs into UE5

Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2022

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

NewTek ships LightWave 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 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

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Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Blender

Long-awaited new edition of V-Ray integrates the production renderer natively in Blender. Check out its features, its limitations, and its price.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Download three free assets from terrain kitbash library Terra xL

Get three 3D scanned mountains from the neat new asset library for kitbashing environments for VFX and concept art. Commercial use.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Check out unusual open-source vector design tool Graphite

Promising free app combines the ease of layer-based workflows with the power of a node graph. More bitmap editing tools planned, too.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Open-source tool Infinigen Indoors generates procedural 3D interiors

Updated: free Blender-based tool generates 3D interiors, from rooms to entire houses. Check out its new Infinigen-Sim toolset.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

How North of Now created holo doubles for Kaytranada's 'Witchy'

Discover how the video for the Grammy-nominated track was created with KeenTools' FaceBuilder and FaceTracker for Nuke.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

Download smart 3D asset browser Polydex free in beta

New app automatically groups related assets for one-click import into DCC apps like Blender. Support for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D due.

Sunday, June 29th, 2025

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