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WSL's neat package manager for Fusion now supports DaVinci Resolve - and restores features missing from its own Fusion toolset.

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.7 for Nuke

Nuke edition of V-Ray gets support for progressive rendering and the V-Ray hair shader and sampler.

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.6 for Modo

Modo edition of the renderer gets hybrid CPU/GPU rendering, V-Ray Fur and support for Cryptomatte.

Saturday, March 24th, 2018

Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action

New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Latest beta adds Nvidia's AI-based OptiX render denoising system, GPU volume rendering, updates to the hair shader.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5

Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.

Tuesday, January 16th, 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

SideFX releases Houdini 16.5

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for Maya

Big update adds hybrid CPU/GPU rendering; V-Ray materials and lights work directly in Viewport 2.0.

Thursday, September 14th, 2017

Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5

Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.

Monday, July 31st, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max

Update adds neat new V-Ray Hybrid CPU/GPU rendering tech, support for Cryptomatte automated ID matte generation.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.4.1

Heavyweight renderer gets image Denoising system, new hair shader, innovative OpenEXR/Id technology.

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016