Chaos Group ships V-Ray 5
The next generation of V-Ray is now out of beta, and available to buy. Check out the new features in Chaos Group's powerful renderer.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
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AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Unreal Engine
Free plugin enables GPU path tracing and 'full spectrum rendering' in UE4 on AMD GPUs.
Saturday, May 16th, 2020
NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21
Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Luxion ships KeyShot 8.2
Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 7.3
Sub-$100 Mac-only 3D software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, new dark UI theme.
Friday, October 19th, 2018
Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D moves into free beta
Beta 1 release adds support for interactive rendering, the Corona Image Editor, and material layering.
Monday, February 5th, 2018
AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya
Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender
Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Sneak peek: Blender's new Eevee real-time render engine
Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Silicon Studio to release Xenko game engine commercially
Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.
Friday, February 24th, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.15
Update improves texture streaming and tonemapping, adds support for Nintendo Switch and HDR displays.
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Render Legion releases first Mac build of Corona for C4D
Free Alpha 6 build of the Cinema 4D renderer also adds the features from the latest 3ds Max release.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2016