Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2
Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
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Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Check out Coiffure, a neat Maya add-on for real-time hair
Updated: Version 1.1 of TD Florian Croquet's tool for converting XGen hair to hair cards now works for feathers as well.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.2 ships
Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
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
Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 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
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
Vahan Sosoyan ships Aton 1.3
Lighting TD's free 'Arnold to Nuke display plugin' lets users render directly into Nuke's UI from Maya, Cinema 4D - and now Houdini.
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Autodesk ships Maya 2018.4 and Maya LT 2018.4
Now shipping: update adds Arnold region rendering in the viewport, improved Render Setup workflow.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Appleseed team releases appleseed 1.9
Open-source renderer adds image denoising, random walk SSS, neat camera shutter curve and light path recording systems.
Monday, May 14th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.
Friday, April 21st, 2017