Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.04
Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
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Sneak peek: 3Delight integration in Katana 3.0
Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1
Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 1
3ds Max production renderer adds support for Nvidia's AI-based OptiX denoising system, hybrid CPU/GPU texture baking, adaptive sampling.
Friday, March 30th, 2018
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.6 for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets hybrid CPU/GPU rendering, V-Ray Fur and support for Cryptomatte.
Saturday, March 24th, 2018
Videos: Epic Games' Unreal new digital human demos
Watch Epic's eye-popping real-time demos, then discover the facial capture tech that powers them.
Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
Videos: See Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing in action
Updated: neat Star Wars short shows the real-time effects possible in UE4 with this new extension to DX12.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
Otoy reveals its roadmap for OctaneRender 2018 and 2019
Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action
New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Blender 2.79a is here
Open-source 3D software gets over 200 bugfixes, plus 10% speed boost to Cycles renders when using CUDA GPUs in Windows.
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
Arseniy Korablev releases PolyBrush 2.2
Unique 3D sketching tool for concept art gets new quick transform tools, better Lathe tool.
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
Luxion ships KeyShot 7.2
Renderer gets improved support for HiDPI displays and option to export metadata in XMP format, plus integration with Deadline.
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
Richard Rosenman releases Image Light Leaks Vol. 3
Hi-res texture overlays add realistic photographic effects to 3D renders. Download 20 sample files for free.
Sunday, January 7th, 2018