Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.6 for 3ds Max
Update to renderer adds new standalone image editor for EXRs, improves sampling, relighting and distributed rendering.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
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New Gnomon video: Multi Pass Rendering and Compositing
Master advanced workflows like deep compositing with Psyop veteran Robby Branham's detailed four-hour tutorial.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.5 for 3ds Max
New Interactive LightMix system lets users relight scenes without re-rendering; VFB now supports post effects and LUTs.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Go Ghost unveils first 'sub pixel sample compositor'
Evotis will take compositing way beyond deep images, claims intriguing new tool's developer.
Monday, June 13th, 2016
Frauenhofer IIS unveils Nuke light-field plugin suite
New tool generates virtual camera moves directly from footage shot with a multi-camera array.
Monday, September 14th, 2015
The Foundry releases Katana 2
Heavyweight lighting & look dev tool gets new public API, support for Lua scripting, improved performance.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular
Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
RandomControl ships Arion for 3ds Max 2.70
Big update to unbiased renderer boosts speed, ups maximum render size, adds new relighting workflow.
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
3d-io releases Spotmask for 3ds Max
Relight and retexture animations in post without rerendering with this nifty set of mental ray render elements.
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
Pixar releases RenderMan Studio 18
Maya version of the renderer gets improved relighting workflow, geometric area lights, better SSS.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 1.5
Updated: innovative hybrid 2D/3D tool gets lots of new render features, Python and Alembic 1.5 support.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Pixar releases RenderMan Pro Server 18
New features include path tracing for faster re-rendering, geometric area lights, Beam Diffusion SSS.
Friday, June 28th, 2013