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studio lighting

Real-time lighting design software can now 'paint' highlights and shadows directly into interactive renders from Blender.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2024

Updated: neat plugin formerly known as MetaShoot creates portfolio renders and visualizations in a few clicks. See what's new in Atlux λ 1.1.

Thursday, March 14th, 2024

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design software, including new shadow modes for the signature LightPaint system.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

Check out the new features in the lightweight 3D modelling app and its UE5-based real-time renderer.

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023

Real-time lighting app gets neat new Scrim Light type mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

Get 10,000 x 5,000px HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups in HDR and EXR format.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023

Updated: get the latest set of free assets, including leaf and plant materials in .sbsar and .sbs format.

Sunday, April 23rd, 2023

New plugin makes rendering model turntables or product visualisations inside UE5 a one-click process.

Friday, March 24th, 2023

Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

Recreate real studio lighting in visualisations and portfolio renders. EXR format, for commercial use.

Sunday, October 30th, 2022

GPU renderers for visualisation and portfolio work get versatile object scattering and instancing system.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.

Monday, November 9th, 2020

Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020