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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

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

Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

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

Now shipping: update adds Arnold region rendering in the viewport, improved Render Setup workflow.

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

Open-source renderer adds image denoising, random walk SSS, neat camera shutter curve and light path recording systems.

Monday, May 14th, 2018

Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.

Friday, April 21st, 2017

Past Rodeo FX environment lead Jeremy Boissinot breaks down his workflow on Jack the Giant Slayer.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

Evotis will take compositing way beyond deep images, claims intriguing new tool's developer.

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Core renderer gets support for refractive dispersion, better volumetrics. Maya plugin gets initial support for Bifrost.

Monday, September 21st, 2015