F12 release The Grove Release 3,Release 3 gets back to the core. Introducing new natural effects for greatly improved – and totally new – tree characters. Tree branches have many senses and matching r...read more
AAA Studio has released FurryBall 1.3, the latest update to its GPU-based renderer, improving render speed by up to 30%, and introducing a new scheme where people actively posting renders get to use t...read more
Metasequoia 4.5 (Ver4.5.5a) for OS X. Veteran Japanese hobbyist 3D modelling software Metasequoia has just been released for Mac. Developer tetraface’s recent 4.5 update makes Metasequoia available on...read more
Terragen VR Challange, $10,000 in prizes including Terragen 4! Enter the Terragen VR Challenge for a chance to win one of 10 copies of Terragen 4 Pro, up to $500 cash, and much more. ...read more
Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine....read more
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Chaos Group announced the release of a new update for V-Ray 3.x for Maya updating it to version 3.3. The update is free of charge for all registered customers and it’s ready for download. The updated version brings significant increase in performance and Chaos Group claims a noticeable major speed boost – 20-50% faster on most scenes. This is of course great enhancement to V-Ray and i believe that most of the users are taking this enhancement with joy. Next to the performance boost, V-Ray brings new features and enhancement old features like a New image sampler, Automatic sampling of lights & materials, GPU production rendering, V-Ray scene file node and more. A short list about the new features with a small description is below. Check also the video about the V-Ray RT GPU improvements.
Art And Animation studio released the final version of their GPU based renderer FurryBall 4. FurryBall is a unique real-time GPU based renderer with advanced rendering techniques which can be directly implemented into Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max featuring network rendering, standalone renderer and multi GPU support. GPU based render engines are the future of rendering and comparing to CPU based renderers consume less power and are faster. FurryBall uniquely combines raytracing with rasterisation and can be used like UNBIASED renderer for realistic results and also like BIASED renderer for fast cartoon like rendering, previz and animations. FurryBall 4 has OptiX™ Physically-based full global illumination and supports unbiased and as well biased techniques. From this moment FurryBall not only offers high quality rendering but a complex studio solution. The new version is featuring Multi-GPU support where only nVidia GPUs are supported for unbiased rendering and AMD/ATI/INTEL GPUs can be used for biased rendering. Also, various new FurryBall materials, Maya materials and rendering options where added to expand the possibilities of this fabulous renderer. Comparing to FurryBall 3, a new approach for the trial version was started.
Luxion, a leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and maker of KeyShot®, announced the release of KeyShot 4.2 with new features and updates to existing tools that simplify the rendering and animation process. KeyShot® is the first real time ray tracing and global illumination program used in various filed of computer graphics including VFX and visualisations. KeyShot is an entirely CPU based standalone 3D rendering and animation system for 3D data. It has been designed to take the complexity out of rendering realistic images. Luxion by this updated focused on the areas of rendering, usability, control, integration and animation while adding more flexibility to the creation of product visuals. With major new features such as LiveLinking, physical lighting, focused caustics and procedural materials introduced within KeyShot 4, KeyShot 4.2 brings faster rendering, better selection and more control over hardware and 3D data import allowing users to work faster and more efficiently with their models inside of KeyShot without jeopardizing the final quality of their images, animations and KeyShotVR interactive visuals. Many of the updates in KeyShot 4.2 aim directly at improving the user experience of the software and the visual development workflow.