Foundry ships Modo 14.1

3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020

Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

Unity 2019.2 ships

Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Corona Renderer 4 ships for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Updated - C4D edition shipping: renderer gets fast new caustics system, more denoising options, fisheye camera.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

cebas ships finalRender Drop 3

3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019

Sneak peek: Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max

Next update to add Intel's CPU-based, AI-driven render denoising technology and improved caustics.

Friday, March 22nd, 2019

Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender

Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2018

Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max

Renderer gets support for GPU-based render denoising, better displacement, reduced RAM use.

Friday, November 23rd, 2018

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1

Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 3 of V-Ray Next for Maya

Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising.

Monday, September 17th, 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