• Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20

    Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20

    Maxon has unveiled Cinema 4D R20, the new version of its modelling, animation and rendering software, adding a node-based material system, volumetric modelling, and a powerful new MoGraph Fields system. The release, which is being demoed at Siggraph 2018, also extends Radeon ProRender, Cinema 4D’s built-in GPU-based render engine, adding support for motion blur, subsurface…

  • Get the free beta of U-Render

    U-Render, Uppercut’s real-time PBR render engine for Cinema 4D, in action. Formerly known as Tachyon Render, the engine renders the scene above at 14fps on a Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU at 1,920 x 960px resolution. Originally posted on 2 April 2018. Scroll down for news of the beta release. Uppercut broadcast & visual technologies has…

  • Video: Chaos Group’s new real-time ray tracing system

     Chaos Group has posted a demo of Project Lavina, its new real-time ray tracing system based on Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing (DXR) technology. The video shows a standard .vrscene file with a total of 300 billion triangles being rendered at over 25fps on a system containing a single Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000 GPU. It will…

  • Otoy releases OctaneRender 4.0 RC1

     Originally posted on 20 March 2018. Scroll down for news of the RC1 build. Otoy has released OctaneRender 4.0, the long-awaited update to its GPU production renderer, as a free public preview for existing uers. The release integrates Brigade, Otoy’s real-time path tracing engine, into OctaneRender, speeds up scene updates by up to 100x,…

  • Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1’s Vectron and Spectron

     Otoy has previewed Vectron and Spectron, the new ‘vector polygon uberprimitive’ and procedural volumetric lighting system coming up in OctaneRender 2018.1, the next major update to the GPU renderer. The features were unveiled at Siggraph 2018, alongside the first release candidate for OctaneRender 4.0. Version 5.0 of the software, but with a new naming…

  • Iray for 3ds Max 1.8 and Iray for Maya 2.1 both ship

    Lightwork Design and [0x1] Software have released Iray for 3ds Max 1.8 and Iray for Maya 2.1, the latest releases of their respective GPU rendering plugins for Autodesk software. The updates add a new Bloom post-processing filter and improved AI denoising to Iray for 3ds Max; and UDIM support, faster animation rendering, and support for…

  • Maxon unveils Cinema 4D R20

    Maxon has unveiled Cinema 4D R20, the new version of its modelling, animation and rendering software, adding a node-based material system, volumetric modelling, and a powerful new MoGraph Fields system. The release, which is being demoed at Siggraph 2018, also extends Radeon ProRender, Cinema 4D’s built-in GPU-based render engine, adding support for motion blur, subsurface…