They wanted to separate selection from action to create a faster workflow. This is the decision Blender made back in the 90s. “Hey, I have an idea! Let’s go against every common piece of software and use right-click to select something instead of left-click.” As the Blender development continues, more and more companies are starting to integrate it into their workflows.

The free and open-source software took a big step to catch up and is now up to par with the other programs (if not better in some areas).

However, everything changed with the very impactful Blender 2.8 update in 2019.

Blender wasn’t good enough to compete with the industry-leading programs. This makes it very difficult for beginners to learn and too expensive for most independent artists and developers.įor a long time, there were no good alternatives. Licenses for Maya, Cinema 4D, or 3DS Max cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars per year. However, as Radeon ProRender is based on OpenCL it will also run on Nvidia GPUs and on Windows or Mac.įeatures include Depth of Field and users have control over anti-aliasing settings.A simple scene in the newest Blender version that can easily compete with other 3D programs, image by author.ģD modeling and VFX software is incredibly expensive. We saw it running on Armari’s brand new Magnetar V25 small form factor (8cm wide) workstation with dual AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 GPUs. Users have precise control over the processing resources, with tick boxes governing which CPUs and GPUs are used. Network rendering will also be supported. Renders can be done in the viewport or queued up for rendering offline. The interface looks extremely intuitive, and the quality of output was impressive. Users select their renderer from a pull-down menu in the render settings dialog. Maxon, with the help of AMD, has embedded Radeon ProRender directly inside Cinema4D and it is available alongside the standard and physical render. Today we caught a first glimpse of the software and even though it’s in ‘pre-alpha’ it already looks to be quite mature. Back in October Maxon announced that it had licensed AMD’s physically-based GPU rendering engine, Radeon ProRender.

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