Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Tungsten Drop 4
Check out the changes to the presets system in the latest update to the real-time lighting design tool.
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
Thea Render
Shoran Software releases RenderPal V2 2.14
Renderfarm management system adds support for Redshift, option to set defaults individually for renderers.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2016
AXYZ design ships Anima 2
Major update rewrites 3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool 'from scratch'; adds new WYSIWG editor and greater range of controls.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.5
Hybrid renderer gets new advanced material options, plus support for Allegorithmic's Substances.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Motiva ships Colimo 1.7
Free update to clever tool for relighting rendered images in real time includes native V-Ray support.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 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
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 4 for 3ds Max
Vegetation scattering plugin now compatible with V-Ray, Maxwell, Arion, Octane and Thea Render.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max
New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
See Thea Render's new GPU renderer in action
Hybrid biased/unbiased render engine to get GPU-based real-time interactive preview.
Friday, October 19th, 2012
In brief: the week's other product news
In bite-sized snippets: Blender 2.54, Thea Render, Indigo Renderer and Acropora 1.2.
Friday, September 24th, 2010