Chaos Group buys Corona developer Render Legion
Both V-Ray and Corona keep their original dev teams, but tech will be shared between the two renderers.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
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Nurulize unveils Atom View and Nu Design
Amazing new VR toolset lets artists stream complex VFX assets into game engines via point clouds.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017
Pixar unveils RenderMan 22 and RenderMan XPU
Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
Foundry to integrate AMD's Radeon ProRender into Modo
Native version of the physically based GPU renderer in beta this year. New open-source 'Baikal' edition out now.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Luxion ships KeyShot 7
Renderer gets new VR camera, support for animated mesh deformations and video maps, better material and HDRI editing.
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya
Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender
Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Next Limit releases Maxwell 4.1
Physically based renderer gets new image-denoising system, support for MERL and AxF materials, plus new readymade lighting assets.
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Modo
Update improves GPU rendering, adds support for Arnold's alShader, OSL, scenes created in other versions of V-Ray.
Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Autodesk to discontinue perpetual licences of Arnold
Firm reverses its policy on acquiring the renderer from Solid Angle last April, moves to rental-only pricing.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.
Friday, April 21st, 2017
Project Dogwaffle teams ships PD Artist 11
$20 digital painting app gets new floating colour picker and new interactive gradient editing tool.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017