AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender
AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
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Adobe unveils Project Anorigami
See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Houdini
Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.3
Rendering and compositing tool for graphic designers gets new widget for aligning objects automatically, option to publish scenes online.
Wednesday, July 17th, 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
Agisoft releases Metashape
Popular image-based modelling tool PhotoScan gets a free update speeding up 3D mesh generation - and changing the product name.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
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
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya
Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron
Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Iray for 3ds Max 1.8 and Iray for Maya 2.1 both ship
Plugin editions of the GPU-based renderer add a bloom filter and better AI denoising in Max; UDIM support in Maya.
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
Clarisse adds support for Nvidia's OptiX denoising
2D/3D rendering system gets fast, AI-based image denoising for both the 3D viewport and final renders.
Friday, March 30th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 1
3ds Max production renderer adds support for Nvidia's AI-based OptiX denoising system, hybrid CPU/GPU texture baking, adaptive sampling.
Friday, March 30th, 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