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

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview

GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Otoy launches new free Prime usage tier for OctaneRender

New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Maxon buys Redshift

Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

F12 ships The Grove Release 7

Update moves the tree-generation tool over to Blender 2.8, improves performance, and makes it possible to re-edit your trees after creation.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Manuel Bastioni to discontinue Manuel Bastioni Lab

Fans offer support for open-source character creation tool in wake of dev's decision to stop further work.

Monday, November 12th, 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

Inria ships Natron 1.2 plus new snapshot builds

Test upcoming features in the free, VFX-ready compositor, including the new script editor and Python API.

Monday, February 9th, 2015

AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4.5

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

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013