CG Channel

cloud rendering

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Check out the new features due in the next major update to the renderer - including proper support for the camera inside volumes.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

See what's new in AMD's pro GPU drivers, and in tools like Clarisse, Redshift and Omniverse Create.

Thursday, October 6th, 2022

3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021

Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.

Friday, March 12th, 2021

Plugin transfers scenes created in other editions of V-Ray to UE4 for rendering. Check out what's new.

Thursday, June 25th, 2020

Otoy launches RNDR

Innovative 'distributed GPU render network' lets OctaneRender users earn credits by making their PCs available to others for rendering.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.

Thursday, October 17th, 2019

Online rendering service now offers up to 48,000 CPU cores per user, new GPU rendering options.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2019

New architectural visualisation platform converts 2D AutoCAD and Revit floorplans into complete 3D environments for final rendering.

Saturday, April 27th, 2019

Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019