Katana

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

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.14

Production renderer gets new sky model, new Flakes shader for car paint, new Renderview Backplate, and more updates to Redshift RT.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.1

See the crazy motion graphics effects created by the renderer's distance shader, supported in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini & Maya.

Thursday, March 30th, 2023

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.13

Update makes Intel's OIDN denoiser and Cinema 4D's Brick and Tile shaders available to all of the renderer's host applications.

Thursday, February 9th, 2023

Foundry ships Katana 6.0

Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.1.4

New version of the renderer adds native Apple Silicon support and improves USD workflow. 3ds Max, C4D and Maya plugins updated.

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

CG Channel is part of the Gnomon group of companies

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