cebas ships finalRender Drop 3
3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
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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
Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support
Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Otoy reveals OctaneRender 2019 product roadmap
See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Godot team ships Godot 3.1
Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
LuxCoreRender 2.1 ships
Open-source physically based renderer gets new denoiser, plus option to pause and resume renders via the Blender plugin.
Monday, January 21st, 2019
E-Cycles speeds up Blender GPU rendering
New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Eye candy: Insydium's new X-Particles showreel
See beautiful semi-abstract effects created in the Cinema 4D particle tool and rendered in Cycles 4D.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Uppercut launches U-Render in early access
Hotly tipped real-time Cinema 4D PBR render engine gets first paid release. Version 1.0 due next year.
Monday, December 17th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
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
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018