Rendering

Refractive Software have announced  that version 1.00b of Octane Render, The incredibly fast, GPU based, un-biased rendering Engine  is now available for Beta licence holders.

Crytek have released a new paper entitled 'Cascaded Light Propagation Volumes for Real Time Indirect Illumination' along with a video showing the new improments that will be included in the eagerly anticipated CryEngine 3.

Luxology have released a new set of commercial training materials that go over studio accurate lighting and reflection setups in modo 401.

Ryan Clark has released a new CrazyBump Beta!

Version 1.2 Beta 3 contains improved support for multicore processors.

MAXON have released an update for their benchmarking utility CINEBENCH.

Ryan Clark has released a new CrazyBump Beta!

Version 1.2 Beta 2 contains added support for 8-threaded processors.

Ryan Clark has released a new CrazyBump Beta!

Version 1.2 Beta 1 contains some very interesting improvements and additions to the already fantastic program, including "extra fine detail" and  "slope influence" controls.

xNormal 3.17.0 Beta 2 has been released today, with the surprising addition of GPU rendering for AO and Normal maps!

The unoptimised experimental GPU renderer shows some very impressive speedups and even beats a i7 920 by 2x (using a GeForce GT 240)

Refractive Software has announced  Octane Render, a GPU based, un-biased rendering Engine that is so incredibly realistic and fast its not even funny.

LuxRender 0.6.1 has now been released into the wild!

The update for the GNU physically based and unbiased rendering engine includes many bugfixes and improvements over previous releases.