Abvent releases Artlantis 6.5
Architectural renderer gets new physical sky, distributed render manager, export to TwinMotion.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
network rendering
Nvidia is releasing Mental Ray for Maya for free
For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
Download innoBright's free tech preview of Altus 1.0
Intriguing new tool denoises Arnold, V-Ray, Corona and Redshift renders, generating clean images 2-9x faster.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
Digimania releases RenderDigimania 1.06
Updated: High-speed GPU-based renderer for animated series gets native Maya material export system.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold for Cinema 4D
C4DtoA plugin lets Arnold render "most Cinema 4D features", plus scenes created using TurbulenceFD or X-Particles.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
Liquid Dream Solutions ships ButterflyNetRender 6
Multi-application network rendering controller now fully compatible with OS X as well as Windows.
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Next Limit releases Maxwell Render 3.1
Physically based renderer adds spotlights, OpenVDB and UDIM support, smart selective sampling.
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
Next Limit unveils Maxwell Render 3.1
VFX-friendly release to add support for OpenVDB, Mari's UDIM textures, improved skin rendering system.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
ButterflyNetRender 5.15 ships
Updated: Versatile network render controller gets new render wizards, supports OS X as well as Windows.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 7 for free
No optical flow or stereo tools, and no network rendering, but still a pretty darn powerful 3D compositor.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
Maxon releases Cinema 4D R16
Now shipping: latest update adds camera tracker, layered reflections and PolyPen modelling/retopo tool.
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.0
Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4
Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.
Sunday, September 15th, 2013