Pixar releases RenderMan Pro Server 18
New features include path tracing for faster re-rendering, geometric area lights, Beam Diffusion SSS.
Friday, June 28th, 2013
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EIAS3D releases EIAS 9.1
Free update to animation tool adds option to render larger production assets; faster, anti-aliased previews.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Solid Iris Technologies ships Thea Render 1.2
Hybrid biased/unbiased renderer gets final-quality GPU-based engine, new 'field mapping' technology.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
e-on software pre-releases The Plant Factory
Updated: restrictions on the original Studio and Vue editions now lifted in response to user demand.
Monday, June 10th, 2013
Thinkbox Software ships Deadline 6.0
Renderfarm manager gets intuitive new graph view, MongoDB backend, built-in cloud management tools.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Lagoa.com adds support for hair rendering
Cloud render service now lets users upload hair data in ASE format. Check out some amazing images.
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Can Lagoa drive 3D work into the cloud?
Cult developer Thiago Costa tells us why he believes the future of high-end CG lies online.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Render_autosave saves Max renders in progress
Take the sting out of crashes with this free script to save and resume long mental ray and V-Ray renders.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Prêt-à-3D releases Reality 3 for Poser
Updated plugin taps the unbiased LuxRender engine to boost realism of renders with minimal tweaking.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
McNeel & Associates releases Neon
Interactive viewport plugin for Rhino is first third-party tool written with the PowerVR Brazil SDK raytrace toolkit.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
pmG ships messiahStudio 6
Updated: Extra videos show the cult animation and rendering tool's new Skelevision interactive rigging view.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Watch real-time path tracing in Otoy's Brigade engine
See a 13.9-billion-triangle scene rendered in real time in this noisy but beautifully photorealistic demo.
Monday, April 8th, 2013
Lagoa opens collaborative cloud rendering service
Exciting new service lets users upload models and generate photorealistic renders via a browser.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013