Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0

Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Appleseed team releases appleseed 1.9

Open-source renderer adds image denoising, random walk SSS, neat camera shutter curve and light path recording systems.

Monday, May 14th, 2018

AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS

Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.

Monday, April 9th, 2018

Appleseed renderer gets new native Maya plugin

Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

Pixar ships RenderMan 21.5

Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya

Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R18

Major update adds neat MoGraph options, object tracking, real-time knife tools, and Substance support.

Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Glare Techologies ships Indigo Renderer 4.0 in beta

Long-awaited update adds support for pure GPU rendering. Supports multiple AMD, Nvidia or Intel GPUs.

Monday, April 11th, 2016

Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 CG discounts

We round up 50 seasonal deals on CG tools, including Modo, Corona, LightWave, Painter and Poser Pro.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.8

Unbiased renderer gets object scattering, big speed boosts. Pure GPU rendering coming in version 4.

Thursday, December 4th, 2014

Evermotion releases NOX renderer as open source

Unbiased renderer for 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema 4D now available to integrate into other apps.

Wednesday, August 27th, 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

Evermotion releases new unbiased renderer

Free open beta of NOX available even for commercial jobs. Includes plug-ins for 3ds Max and Blender.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011