AMD releases FSR SDK 2.2 with new AI denoiser Ray Regeneration

SDK for games and CG software developers now includes AMD's Redstone AI rendering technologies, including the new AI denoiser.

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

RenderMan 25 to feature the AI denoiser used on Lightyear

Next big update to the renderer to feature Pixar's AI-trained denoiser on its release later on this year.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

Open Image Denoise 3 will support temporal denoising

Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Friday, January 30th, 2026

Boris FX releases Optics 2026 with AI-powered facial masking

Check out the new AI technologies in the standalone app and Photoshop plugin for adding cinematic effects to still images.

Sunday, December 7th, 2025

Chaos adds new AI tools to V-Ray in V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max, Update 2

Check out the new AI Material Generator and image enhancer in this major update to Chaos's production renderer.

Thursday, August 7th, 2025

Intel releases Open Image Denoise 2

Popular open-source render denoiser now runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs as well as CPUs.

Monday, July 3rd, 2023

Silhouette 2023 gets new generative AI art tools

Sizeable update to the rotoscoping app also adds new film grain nodes and the Primatte chroma keyer.

Thursday, April 27th, 2023

Get free AI-based frame interpolation tool Flowframes

NMKD Software's neat tool retimes video - but you can also use it speed up 3D animation workflow.

Saturday, July 16th, 2022

Open Image Denoise now runs on GPU as well as CPU

Open-source render denoiser used in Arnold. Blender and V-Ray now supports AMD, Intel & Nvidia GPUs.

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4

Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.

Monday, May 24th, 2021

Intel releases open-source denoiser Open Image Denoise

New render denoising system is CPU-based, AI-driven, hardware-agnostic. See it in action here.

Thursday, January 31st, 2019

Pixar releases RenderMan 27

'Most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight production renderer makes RenderMan XPU ready for final-frame output.

Friday, November 14th, 2025

Pixar releases RenderMan 26.3

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.

Thursday, December 19th, 2024