Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Clarisse adds support for Nvidia's OptiX denoising

2D/3D rendering system gets fast, AI-based image denoising for both the 3D viewport and final renders.

Friday, March 30th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Latest beta adds Nvidia's AI-based OptiX render denoising system, GPU volume rendering, updates to the hair shader.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 1 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Updated: Find more info on the new light cache analysis-based 'smart features' like auto exposure.

Monday, January 22nd, 2018

NewTek ships LightWave 2018

Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.

Monday, January 1st, 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

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

cebas releases finalRender R4 for 3ds Max

Long-awaited physically accurate hybrid CPU/GPU renderer ships after six years in development.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

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

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

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 11.0

Compositing packages get OpenCL GPU acceleration on AMD GPUs, new live collaboration system.

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Next Limit releases Maxwell 4.1

Physically based renderer gets new image-denoising system, support for MERL and AxF materials, plus new readymade lighting assets.

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for Rhino

Latest Rhino edition of the renderer gets 500 readymade materials; V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.

Sunday, April 9th, 2017