Thinkbox Software ships Krakatoa MY 2.3
Maya particle renderer adds Magma toolkit from 3ds Max edition, better surfacing and shadowing options.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
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Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 1.3
Maya fur plugin adds procedural feather geometry, new grooming tools, support for OpenSubdiv.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Evermotion releases Nox 0.40
Free unbiased renderer gets streamlined new GUI, new material editor and advanced colour picker.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Basefount releases Miarmy 2.7
Maya crowd simulator adds support for compound bone systems, more advanced actor interactions.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino
Update adds V-Ray RT GPU, plus bonus add-on with 200 readymade material and lighting set-ups.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
Marmoset releases Marmoset Toolbag 2
Updated: Real-time render toolkit for games gets complete scene editor, support for physically based shaders.
Saturday, December 7th, 2013
The Foundry ships Nuke 8.0
Updated: release adds new 3D tools, in-panel colour wheels, overhauled Dope Sheet. See the videos here.
Friday, December 6th, 2013
Autodesk adds MEL scripting, OBJ export to Maya LT
Latest extension suddenly makes the 'lite' version of Maya for games artists a much more powerful proposition.
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Next Limit ships Maxwell Render 3
Sizeable update to the physically based renderer adds new tools for for suns, seas and surface scattering.
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
e-on software ships Vue 2014 product range
Updated: Entire Vue 2014 line-up now available. New features include physical sunlight, tone mapping.
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4.5
Update to the GPU-based renderer adds progressive rendering. Modo and Softimage editions mooted.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Pixar releases RenderMan Studio 18
Maya version of the renderer gets improved relighting workflow, geometric area lights, better SSS.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013