Nvidia discontinues Mental Ray
Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
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Maxon launches short term licences for Cinema 4D
Payable three or six-monthly, but you don't get upgrades during that time. Perpetual licences still available.
Monday, March 7th, 2016
Download PRMan for Blender
Free alpha plugin headed up by Pixar's Brian Savery lets Blender users render using RenderMan 20.
Friday, July 10th, 2015
Epic Games funds Blender development
Game developer donates €10,000 to Blender dev fund in order to improve FBX export to Unreal Engine 4.
Monday, July 7th, 2014
Old Softimage licences will remain valid after 2016
Autodesk also to offer subscription customers access to Softimage even after support is withdrawn.
Monday, March 10th, 2014
Softimage died to help Max and Maya, says Autodesk
'Best of the strengths' of the software to transition to sister apps as firm refocuses development efforts.
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
V-Ray for Blender becomes official Chaos Group plugin
Free scene exporter gets Chaos Group product page and forum as original developer joins company.
Friday, February 21st, 2014
Blender Foundation to launch pro networking site
New Blender Network website to act as 'online directory and social network' for Blender professionals.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012