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volume rendering

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

3D app gets new parametric Array modifier for tasks ranging from procedural modelling to motion-graphics-type effects.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2022

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

See how the major rewrite of the renderer has evolved from initial alpha to its release in Blender 3.0 next week.

Thursday, November 25th, 2021

See the highlights of today's update to the open-source 3D app, from sculpting to 2D animation.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.

Friday, September 6th, 2019

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

Check out all the new features of the upcoming release, plus a demo of volume rendering on the GPU.

Friday, May 4th, 2018

See new features due in the next release of the renderer, including a physically based hair shader, better volumetrics, and support for OSL.

Friday, March 31st, 2017