Uppercut releases U-Render 2020.9 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new color correction filter. Now fully integrated into the C4D viewport.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
viewport rendering
Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021
See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.5 for Blender in beta
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets neat 'target frame rate' setting for viewport renders.
Monday, August 24th, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal Update 3
Plugin transfers scenes created in other editions of V-Ray to UE4 for rendering. Check out what's new.
Thursday, June 25th, 2020
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2019 and Maya LT 2019
Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
Robert McNeel & Associates ships Rhino 6 for Windows
Long-awaited update to NURBS modeller adds interactive viewport raytracing, node-based workflow.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
NewTek ships LightWave 2018
Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.
Monday, January 1st, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp
Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Nvidia is releasing Mental Ray for Maya for free
For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016