Autodesk releases Arnold 7.3
Check out the changes in the compatibility-breaking update to the renderer, including better denoising and progressive rendering.
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Open Image Denoise
Chaos releases Vantage 2.2
Real-time renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets better hair and fur rendering, better denoising and upscaling, new firefly filter.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
Chaos Czech releases Corona 11 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including updates to Chaos Scatter, and support for Open Image Denoise 2.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
Otoy releases first public preview of OctaneRender 2024.1
New version of the GPU renderer adds long-awaited option to mix Macs with Windows and Linux machines in render networks.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 2
Popular open-source render denoiser now runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs as well as CPUs.
Monday, July 3rd, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
F3D 2.0 is a free, lightweight ray traced 3D model viewer
Neat open-source tool displays 3D models or point clouds in common formats on Windows, Linux, macOS.
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6
Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.
Friday, March 17th, 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
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
Blender 3.3 LTS ships
See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1
Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.
Monday, January 31st, 2022
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022