Sneak peek: Blender's new Eevee real-time render engine
Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
image based lighting
FrostSoft ships PixelBerg 1.8 for Cinema 4D
Promising real-time PBR render engine now supports C4D's standard renderer for final-quality images.
Friday, January 15th, 2016
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Marmoset unveils Marmoset Viewer for Toolbag 2
New WebGL exporter will let artists share 3D models in a web browser, with physically based shading.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
HDR Sets releases HDR Sets GUI 1.2 for free
Create Smart IBL lighting setups in Maya and V-Ray semi-automatically with this handy free helper script.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
How to spot a bad HDRI
Updated with new video: Hyperfocal Design's Jay Weston explains how to spot and fix duff HDR image files.
Friday, May 16th, 2014
The Foundry ships Mari 2.6
Good update for games artists adds physically correct shading, layered GLSL shaders, in-viewport IBL.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Lightmap ships LightWave plugin for HDR Light Studio
LightWave3D Live Connection lets users create HDRIs in real time, and see the results in LightWave's VPR.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
DNA Research releases 3Delight for Softimage 4.0
RenderMan-compliant renderer gets new interactive relighting workflow, speed boost of up to ten times.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
3ds Max sneak peek: image-based lighting in mental ray
New Skylight Illumination from IBL option lets mental ray render scenes using an environment map properly
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 4.1
New Live link to 3ds Max lets users design custom image-based light rigs and see results in V-Ray RT.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 4
Innovative real-time image-based lighting tool enables users to 'paint' highlights directly onto 3D models.
Monday, September 24th, 2012
HDR Labs ships sIBL_GUI 4.0
Free tool for creating 'Smart IBL' setups for faster HDR renders gets new UI and performance boost.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011