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

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for SketchUp

Update adds new UI, new library of 200 physically based materials, V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.

Thursday, March 9th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke

Nuke edition of the renderer gets support for volumetrics, render denoising, Adaptive Lights system.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max

Big update adds new Adaptive Lights system, resumable renders, greatly extends GPU rendering.

Friday, February 10th, 2017

Natron 2.2 ships

Sizeable update to the open source compositor adds 16 new plugins, including keying, retiming, blur, denoise and colour correction.

Monday, January 16th, 2017