innoBright ships Altus 1.9
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
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Adobe ships Dimension CC
Videos: Check out this intuitive new V-Ray powered rendering and compositing tool, targeted at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.3
Updated: Autodesk discusses how the new Fluids simulation toolset stacks up against Bifröst in Maya.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2017.3
Texture-painting tool gets export to Adobe's Project Felix, glTF 2.0 support, new Auto-Backup plugin.
Friday, September 29th, 2017
cebas releases finalRender R4 for 3ds Max
Long-awaited physically accurate hybrid CPU/GPU renderer ships after six years in development.
Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for Maya
Big update adds hybrid CPU/GPU rendering; V-Ray materials and lights work directly in Viewport 2.0.
Thursday, September 14th, 2017
Luxion releases free KeyShot 7 content pack
Free installer adds 10 6K Aversis HDRIs and 150 3K Poliigon texture maps to the renderer's asset library.
Thursday, September 14th, 2017
Check out the new features in Blender 2.79
Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
Otoy releases free Nuke, After Effects plugins for OctaneVR
Subscription-only edition of the Octane renderer adds free support for the leading compositing tools.
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Luxion ships KeyShot 7 HD and KeyShot 7 Pro for ZBrush
Low-cost versions of the renderer for ZBrush users get new UI customisation, materials and environment options.
Thursday, August 17th, 2017
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