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
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Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 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
See the 10 hottest new features due in Blender in 2018
Read the Blender Foundation's pick of the top dev projects, from the Eevee PBR viewport renderer to 'Animation 2020'.
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 11.0
Compositing packages get OpenCL GPU acceleration on AMD GPUs, new live collaboration system.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2017
Next Limit releases Maxwell 4.1
Physically based renderer gets new image-denoising system, support for MERL and AxF materials, plus new readymade lighting assets.
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
LAUBLab releases V-RayforC4D 3.4
Huge update moves Cinema 4D edition of renderer to same core technology as the 3ds Max edition.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.4.1
Heavyweight renderer gets image Denoising system, new hair shader, innovative OpenEXR/Id technology.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.4 for 3ds Max and Maya
Update to the renderer adds neat interactive denoising system, improved GI and GPU rendering.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
Render Legion releases Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max
Big update to renderer adds new denoising function, texture baking, support for multiple interactive render regions.
Monday, May 16th, 2016