Pixar releases RenderMan 26.1
Check out the latest update to the heavyweight production renderer, including support for OpenVDB caching in the RIS render mode.
Friday, April 26th, 2024
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DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.5
Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.
Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
Maxon releases Redshift 3.5.24
Production renderer gets native support for the hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology in Apple's new M3 processors.
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
BCorona 2.0 lets you render Blender scenes in Corona
Unofficial Blender integration for the Corona renderer gets support for Blender 4.0 and an automated converter for Cycles shaders.
Friday, January 19th, 2024
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.22
Update boosts performance in real-time render engine Redshift RT, including support for async shader compilation and DLSS upscaling.
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.20
Latest update to the production renderer improves performance in real-time render engine Redshift RT.
Monday, October 23rd, 2023
Chaos releases Phoenix 5.2
Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya fluid simulator, including new options for directing liquids. Sims now 'up to 20%' faster.
Wednesday, July 12th, 2023
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender
GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D Update 1
C4D edition of the renderer gets V-Ray Toon material, Chaos Scatter, and improved MoGraph support.
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer
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
Maxon ships ZBrush 2023
First ever paid update to the digital sculpting software adds new 'Slime Bridge', revamps ZRemesher, and integrates the Redshift renderer.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Maverick Studio and Maverick Indie 2022.7 released
Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including options for motion-graphics-style effects.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2022