Pixar ships RenderMan 21
Major update to the heavyweight production renderer adds Pixar's own in-house shaders and lights, removes Reyes rendering and RSL.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016
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Blender add-on mimics the PxrDisney shader in Cycles
Updated: Onelvxe Studios' add-on mimics RenderMan's 'ubershader' in Blender. Now a paid-for product as well as a free beta.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
DNA Research ships beta of 3Delight for Katana
RenderMan-compliant production renderer gets new Katana edition with improved support for OSL.
Friday, July 15th, 2016
Redshift 2.0 ships: new 3ds Max version also available
Hotly tipped biased GPU-based renderer gets new PBR material, support for volumetrics and baking.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Otoy releases OctaneRender 3.0
Now shipping: Long-awaited update to GPU renderer to add volumetrics, support for deep pixel compositing.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
LuxRender 1.6 ships
Open-source renderer gets new shadowcatcher system, plus variance clamping to reduce artefacts in renders.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
Render Legion releases Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max
Big update to renderer adds new denoising function, texture baking, support for multiple interactive render regions.
Monday, May 16th, 2016
The Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 10
Now shipping: Update adds multi-GPU support, better roto paint, new Smart Vector toolset in NukeX.
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
Autodesk buys Solid Angle
Acquisition of Arnold renderer will help drive a 'more aggressive' move to the cloud, firm tells CG Channel.
Monday, April 18th, 2016
See screenshots of what may be 3ds Max 2017
Posted on Autodesk's AREA forum, but not confirmed officially yet. Some information about new features too.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
innoBright halves price of Altus 1.3
Updated: Tool for denoising images generated in renderers like Arnold and V-Ray now starts at $20/month.
Monday, March 28th, 2016
Marmoset's GDC reel hints at new features in Toolbag 3
Video: Beautiful new reel shows particle effects and character animation rendered using the real-time viewer.
Friday, March 18th, 2016