DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 1

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Boris FX releases Silhouette 2022.5

Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2022.1

First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

Autodesk ships Maya 2023.2

3D modelling and animation app gets faster viewport animation playback, plus updates to the rigging and Blue Pencil toolsets.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

SideFX releases Houdini 19.5

Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma.

Thursday, July 21st, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max

Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.

Thursday, July 7th, 2022

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.4 for Blender and Maya

Free physically based renderer gets new Atmosphere and Fog system, shadow override controls.

Thursday, June 9th, 2022

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Nuke Indie 13.2

Compositing and editorial tools get support for NDI, OpenTimelineIO and new machine learning features.

Thursday, April 14th, 2022

Chaos Czech ships Corona 8 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Major update to the renderer adds new object scattering, decal and cutaway systems, plus new pricing.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022

[Free] 3d-io ships Exr-IO 2.06 for Photoshop

Free Photoshop plugin for editing multi-layer EXR files gets support for Smart Objects and file linking.

Friday, March 4th, 2022

5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021

See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021