F12 ships The Grove Release 4a
Update to biologically accurate tree creation software promises 100% boost in tree generation speed.
Thursday, December 1st, 2016
raytracer
AAA Studio cuts price of FurryBall RT by 40%
Price of the GPU-based Maya renderer cut permanently to €359. New Cinema 4D version out now.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
Autodesk Labs unveils Autodesk Raytracer for Max
Free tech preview offers 'easy-to-use physically based rendering' in 3ds Max, both locally and in the cloud.
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
AAA studio releases FurryBall RT
Now shipping: Major rewrite of GPU-based Maya renderer boosts speed, but temporarily removes 3ds Max and C4D support.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Video: AMD demos new GPU-based Maya renderer
Designed to showcase use of OpenCL 2.0 for raytracing, and due for an open-source release.
Monday, September 1st, 2014
Project Dogwaffle team releases PD Artist 9
Digital paint app includes all the non-animation tools of Howler 9, including its new renderer, for $20.
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Blender's Cycles renderer released via Apache licence
Switch from GPL licence designed to attract big studios and software houses to contribute to development.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Eye candy: the new Arnold renderer showreel
Recent outings at Digic Pictures and Psyop prove that the raytrace renderer is not "just for big studios".
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Luxion releases KeyShot 3.3 and KeyShotVR
Updated real-time raytracer gets add-on for exporting 3D models for viewing in any HTML5 browser.
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.61
Update incorporates the new GPU-accelerated Cycles raytracing engine into the open source 3D app.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011