The Blender Foundation unveils Cycles X

Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Check out Nvidia's RTXDI and RTXGI GPU ray tracing demos

Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI.

Friday, April 16th, 2021

LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship

Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.1 for Blender and Maya

Free GPU renderer get supports for Cryptomatte AOVs, and a new 16-bit Machine Learning denoiser.

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2

Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.

Friday, March 12th, 2021

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1

Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

Bondware ships Poser 12

First major update to the figure posing and animation software in five years adds RTX-accelerated ray tracing, CPU render denoising.

Monday, February 1st, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D

Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.

Friday, December 11th, 2020

Red Giant releases Magic Bullet Suite 14.0

Suite of colour grading plugins gets its first major update in four years. Check out the new features here.

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

Maxon releases Redshift for Blender and Metal in beta

Download the long-awaited Blender plugin and Metal edition of the GPU renderer for current Macs.

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020

RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio

Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.

Monday, November 9th, 2020

SideFX ships Houdini 18.5

Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020