Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4

Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.

Monday, November 17th, 2014

Five technologies to watch: Mitsuba

An open-source renderer on the bleeding edge of graphics research, for budding programmers and TDs.

Friday, June 27th, 2014

Five technologies to watch: appleseed

Today, a production-ready physically based renderer with one of the most beautiful demo shorts ever created.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.0

Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2014

Otoy makes OctaneRender 1.2 free to students

Got an educational email address? Download the GPU-based renderer plus 3ds Max and Blender plugins.

Friday, March 7th, 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

AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4.5

Update to the GPU-based renderer adds progressive rendering. Modo and Softimage editions mooted.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

The best new software from Siggraph 2013

Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Otoy announces Octane Render Cloud Edition

Developer aims to allow "every single 3D app" to process render jobs in the cloud on up to 128 GPUs.

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max

New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

LuxRender 1.0 released

Updated: Open-source physically based render engine for Blender, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Softimage hits 'official' release.

Monday, September 10th, 2012