CL3VER unveils CL3VER Cloud
New real-time visualisation platform based on Nvidia's RTX tech renders V-Ray scenes and streams the result to standard web browsers.
Thursday, December 20th, 2018
3ds max
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.3
Update adds interactive rendering in the ActiveShade viewport, plus better OSL and Alembic support.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 8
Major update to the production tracking system introduces new 'cloud-connected desktop app' Shotgun Create.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory
Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 1
Update improves IPR performance in the 3ds Max renderer, and adds support for GPU bucket rendering.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Get two free Renderpeople animated characters
Download free animated characters in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and FBX formats. For commercial use.
Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free 7-hour Venom VFX training course
Free video tutorials reveal how to recreate everyone's favourite alien symbiote in 3ds Max and V-Ray. Includes project files.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal
New app converts scenes created in other editions of V-Ray for use in UE4, also baking out V-Ray lights.
Friday, November 9th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21
Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Quixel releases Quixel Bridge 2018.5
Free app for exporting Megascans assets to other software gets live links to 3ds Max, Houdini, Toolbag.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018