Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4D
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system, improves rendering of caustics.
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
performance boost
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Maya Update 2
Update adds RTX-accelerated GPU ray tracing, new animation-friendly light cache and deep EXR output.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3
Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Otoy releases first preview build of OctaneRender 2019
Support for Nvidia RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing provides 'up to 7.5x' rendering speed boost.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Chaos Group launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
Now shipping: Next big update to the renderer officially launches. See the key features and price changes here.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2018.1
Big VFX-focused update to the material authoring tool adds UDIM workflow, 30% speed boost when opening large assets.
Monday, March 12th, 2018
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.1
Landscape-generation tool gets better cloud generation, faster previews, and 32-bit EXR output.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max
Update adds neat new V-Ray Hybrid CPU/GPU rendering tech, support for Cryptomatte automated ID matte generation.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Unity Technologies reveals 2017 Unity product roadmap
See all the new features due in Unity 5.6 and beyond - including a free integration of OctaneRender.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
FurryBall RT 1.3 ships, adds new free 'Credit version'
Updated: Just logging in now gives you up 30 free hours of rendering a month, even for commercial jobs.
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
Basefount Technology unveils Miarmy 4.5
Maya crowd simulation tool to get new jump system for actors, plus tech developed for use on Ant-Man.
Monday, March 14th, 2016
Eos Systems releases PhotoModeler 2016 line-up
Pro photogrammetry tool gets performance boost designed to help in processing drone photography.
Friday, January 29th, 2016