Thinkbox Software releases Krakatoa MY
New Maya particle renderer produces 'pixel-identical' output to its 3ds Max sibling, runs on laptops.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
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Cebas posts new preview videos of finalRender 4 GPU
Updated: new video talks up the world's first "continuous rendering workflow between CPU and GPU".
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max
New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.
Tuesday, February 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
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 2.4 for 3ds Max
Update to renderer adds support for Alembic geometry, instancing within V-Ray RT, Hair Farm hair.
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
RandomControl previews relighting in Arion 2.4
Physically based hybrid CPU/GPU renderer to export new 'LightMixer' layers without raising render times.
Monday, January 21st, 2013
Eye candy: Juan Gonzalez's Mandelbulb animation
See what the Arnold renderer can do even outside big VFX studios with this 250-million-particle 3D fractal.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
FluidRay RT enters free beta
Updated: Physically accurate renderer based on Intel's Embree kernels becomes available for Mac as well as Windows.
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Otoy ships OctaneRender standalone & Poser plugin
Standalone version of the physically based GPU renderer finally ships to join the 3ds Max and Maya plugins.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
AAA Studio to release FurryBall for 3ds Max
While you're waiting: version 3.2 of the Maya edition of the GPU renderer is out, and the price has been cut.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
EIAS3D releases EIAS 9
New development team rolls out extensive update to the veteran Electric Image Animation System.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Fabric Engine demos real-time production renderer
Final-quality, VFX-focused real-time renderer due as part of next release of Creation Platform this fall.
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
See Thea Render's new GPU renderer in action
Hybrid biased/unbiased render engine to get GPU-based real-time interactive preview.
Friday, October 19th, 2012