NewTek ships LightWave 2018
Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.
Monday, January 1st, 2018
OpenVDB
Insydium releases X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D
Now shipping: big update to the particle simulation tool adds new liquid and fire solvers, cloth system.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
VDB Splicer lets you use Booleans with volumetrics
Interesting new LightWave plugin offers unusual ways to edit and resmesh simulation and scan data.
Thursday, July 6th, 2017
YCDIVFX releases Nyx Sidekick
Now shipping: New €90 live-linking tool turns Houdini into an 'effects co-processor' for 3ds Max.
Sunday, May 7th, 2017
Foundry releases Nuke 11 product family in beta
Speed and open standards focused update adds support for VFX Reference Platform 2017, extends GPU acceleration.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.
Friday, April 21st, 2017
Sneak peek: Arnold 5
See new features due in the next release of the renderer, including a physically based hair shader, better volumetrics, and support for OSL.
Friday, March 31st, 2017
NewTek previews LightWave Next
Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.
Thursday, March 16th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke
Nuke edition of the renderer gets support for volumetrics, render denoising, Adaptive Lights system.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Redshift devs release Redshift for Houdini
New integration plugin for the GPU renderer supports Houdini's native primitives, instancing and volumes.
Saturday, February 18th, 2017
Alexandra Institute releases Elementacular 1.5
Maya cloud-creation plugin gets OpenVDB export for rendering in Arnold, V-Ray and RenderMan.
Monday, December 19th, 2016
Redshift 2.0 ships: new 3ds Max version also available
Hotly tipped biased GPU-based renderer gets new PBR material, support for volumetrics and baking.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016