Luxion, provider of advanced rendering technology and the makers of KeyShot ^®, together with Sabertooth, an interactive and digital company, launched the first interactive 3D rendering web service platform with the name LuSt^TM. One of the key challenges by developing LuSt^TM were in utilizing 3d assets to create imagery for consumer-oriented solutions is rendering. The industry want to show to their customer every possible option of their product, however creating separate assets can become very expensive. With LuSt the user takes the control of the rendering, product options and the environments. The image is than created on demand and delivered straight to the customer.

cebas Visual Technology Inc. announces the immediate release of its 10th and latest Service Pack for finalRender 3.5 SE as well as for the integrated and standalone finalToon 3.5. This latest service pack provides direct fixes and addresses a few issues users were experiencing on rare occasions.

Service Pack 10 offers solutions to crash in finalToon during the calling of the ‘About’ dialog. It also fixes a crash when invoking the location dialog on 3ds Max 2013 and a crash when instancing renderable splines.

The update features improvements and fixes that make V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino more stable and responsive. To latest version was added support for visibility / material changes to layers during RT. It also improved scene loading time such as fixed many issues.

V-Ray for Rhino offers visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. Many of the new tools will be familiar to anyone who has been following updates to V-Ray for 3ds Max over the past few years.

Next Limit Technologies announces the release of Maxwell Render Suite 2.7. It is a FREE update for Maxwell Render Version 2 customers and includes a whole host of additions, improvements and fixes, making Maxwell Render faster and more robust.

Version 2.7 brings you Maxwell Grass- a new grass generator which allows you to quickly create grass on a selected piece of geometry. Designed to offer maximum control over the look of the grass- from impeccable detail on close up shots to fast-rendering further away from the camera. And it's compatible with Maxwell Studio and almost all supported plugins.