February 3, 2023
Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager. Read More »
January 4, 2023
Volumetric rendererer and particle tools for 3ds Max and Maya now free via an Apache 2.0 licence. Read More »
August 3, 2022
Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download. Read More »
December 2, 2021
See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max. Read More »
April 29, 2021
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software. Read More »
February 18, 2020
Neat app auto-detects common 3ds Max plugins and performs 'sanity checks' to fix common V-Ray and Corona errors. Read More »
October 17, 2019
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services. Read More »
December 24, 2018
New cloud-based 3ds Max render management system is aimed at freelancers and smaller studios. Read More »
June 11, 2018
Renderfarm management tool gets fast new Postgres-based backend architecture. Supervisor licences now free to download and use. Read More »
July 6, 2017
Renderfarm manager's new online analytics reports let render wranglers monitor site stress and system load on a per-minute basis. Read More »
October 6, 2016
Renderfarm manager adds support for Redshift and Katana; new option to pay for extra licences on a per minute basis during crunch periods. Read More »
September 20, 2016
Renderfarm management system adds support for Redshift, option to set defaults individually for renderers. Read More »
July 13, 2016
Rent licences of the renderfarm manager on the fly; pay per minute at a rate equivalent to $0.10/hour. Read More »
May 5, 2016
Thinkbox Software offers free hours of the renderfarm manager in May to trial Deadline 8's new on-demand licensing system. Read More »
January 25, 2016
Update to renderfarm management system expands job-submission capabilities of the ArtistView UI. Read More »
October 2, 2015
Renderfarm-management tool gets new file-conversion options, support for the NIM production tracker. Read More »
July 15, 2015
Updated: v7's new wizard for setting up cloud-based renderfarms now available for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon EC2. Read More »
April 21, 2015
We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel readers: from VFX software to plugins & pipeline apps. Read More »
March 9, 2015
Bcreative and Bpipeline product suites cover the studio's full range of tools, from 3D and compositing to asset management. Read More »
January 30, 2014
Renderfarm manager gets better scheduling, standalone Python API, V-Ray distributed rendering option. Read More »
