production renderer

Pixar releases RenderMan 25

Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Maxon ships Redshift for Mac

Updated: Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users can now run the renderer on Macs with M1 processors as well as AMD GPUs.

Friday, April 30th, 2021

Maxon buys Redshift

Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019