Sneak peek: real-time ray tracing in Notch Builder
See the real-time motion graphics tool's interesting new path tracing system. Runs on any current GPU.
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
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Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.3
Landscape-generation software gets new cloud animation controls and new deferred shading mode.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Sneak peek: Blender 2.8 new principled hair shader
Neat new Cycles shader is based on work done by Disney for Zootopia, also used in V-Ray Next.
Monday, July 23rd, 2018
Author PBR materials in your browser with Material-Z.com
Now officially live. Create texture maps and GLSL shader code with Braindistrict's neat online service.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS
Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Unity
Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.
Monday, December 18th, 2017
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R19
Now shipping. See videos of the new LoD system, motion graphics tools and media core; and the Radeon ProRender render engine.
Friday, September 1st, 2017
E-on ships Vue Infinite 2016 R3 and Vue xStream R3
Free quarterly update to the digital nature tools speeds up saving, extends the new Path Tracer render engine.
Saturday, August 12th, 2017
Foundry to integrate AMD's Radeon ProRender into Modo
Native version of the physically based GPU renderer in beta this year. New open-source 'Baikal' edition out now.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
Pixar ships RenderMan 21.5
Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender
Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
LAUBLab releases V-RayforC4D 3.4
Huge update moves Cinema 4D edition of renderer to same core technology as the 3ds Max edition.
Friday, December 16th, 2016