Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.1 for Maya
Sizeable update adds two new VR camera types, extends V-Ray RT GPU, boosts performance all round.
Friday, July 31st, 2015
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Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 12 in beta
Free Lite edition now rebranded plain DaVinci Resolve; $995 Studio edition now adds Linux support.
Friday, July 31st, 2015
Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.5
Hybrid renderer gets new advanced material options, plus support for Allegorithmic's Substances.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Sneak peek: see the new features in RealFlow 2015
Updated: Watch videos of all the key features, including the new GPU-accelerated Dyverso solvers and OpenVDB meshing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
E-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2015.5
3ds Max, Maya and C4D instancing plugin gets revamped file browser, better compatibility with PlantFactory.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
See the proposed dev schedule for Blender 2.8
Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015
Brekel Pro PointCloud 2 and Body 2 apps released
Updated: Kinect-based mocap tools now support Oculus Rift. New free script for viewing the point cloud data in Unity, too.
Friday, July 17th, 2015
Thinkbox Software releases Deadline 7
Updated: v7's new wizard for setting up cloud-based renderfarms now available for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon EC2.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
E-on software releases LumenRT 2015.5 line-up
Update to real-time visualisation tools boosts playback performance, adds integration with PlantFactory.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Pixar ships RenderMan 20
Latest update adds Denoise option for raytraced renders, new Visualizer view for debugging complex scenes.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Fabric Software, MPC unveil Fabric for RenderMan
Graphics tools dev framework to get new link to RenderMan. More news on upcoming open-source rigging system Kraken, too.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
AAA studio releases FurryBall RT
Now shipping: Major rewrite of GPU-based Maya renderer boosts speed, but temporarily removes 3ds Max and C4D support.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Render Legion announces Corona Renderer roadmap
Popular production renderer to be ported to Linux and Mac OS X in version 1.3, due out in September.
Monday, July 6th, 2015