Pixar has released Renderman 23, adding native support for USD, support for Houdini 18 including the Solaris look-dev tool, improved interactive rendering, updated and improved APIs and development platforms, improved compositing with interactive adjustment of LPEs and AOVs and more. Read about it on the Pixar website.

Maxon has announced the release of Redshift 3.0.12, bringing native support for Cinema4D noises. This means that users working with Redshift in other applications can also access Cinema 4D's procedural noises. Cinema 4D includes 32 different types of noise each with many variations. Find out more on the Maxon website.

Chaos Group has announced the release of V-Ray Next for Revit bringing the intelligent features of V-Ray Next to Revit plus a new Asset Editor (as seen in V-Ray for Rhino and Sketchup),a  new streamlined materials workflow, new workflows for entourage including randomisation and instancing features for foliage, a Lighting Analysis render element and more. Learn more on the Chaos Group website. 

A number of companies will be offering discounts during this year’s Black Friday (November 29) and Cyber Monday (December 2) sales.  Details are already starting to be released and so, as we do every year, we're collecting an exhaustive (and exhausting!) list for our readers.  

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Following several teasers and a sneak peeks, SideFX recently released Houdini 18 with a new procedural lookdev system Solaris for layout and lighting. Solaris is based on the USD standard and integrates with the other big feature of this release, a new Karma Render engine based on Hydra. Many other improvements are included including SOP-based tools for configuring Destruction and Pyro FX shots and improved UX and optimizations. To see the announcement in full, watch the launch on Vimeo and read about it on the SideFX website.  

Chaos Group Czech recently released Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4D. New features include:  (more...)

Image Engine has released a new reel of their FX and simulation work for film. Watch it on Vimeo.

Ivan Maximov has released a new MCG topology-based panelling modifier. The script costs $12.99 and is compatible with Max 2018.1 and above. Find out more on Gumroad.