From Photon to Photograph | Indigo Renderer

Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, photorealistic GPU and CPU renderer aimed at ultimate image quality, by accurately simulating the physics of light. State of the art rendering performance, materials and cameras models - it's all made simple through an interactive, photographic approach
with few abstract settings, letting you concentrate on lighting and composing your imagery.

Indigo Renderer 4.4

We are proud to announce the official release of Indigo Renderer 4.4.
Indigo 4.4 brings denoising, a fabric material, GPU SSS, lightmap baking and more.

ALL ABOUT INDIGO 4.4

What's new in Indigo 4?

Brand new multi-GPU engine

Indigo's OpenCL-based GPU engine provides industry leading performance on Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. With a single modern GPU, it's approximately 10x faster than before. Simply add more GPUs and get the horsepower to quickly render incredible 4K images and animations.

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Workflow & UI enhancements

A dark UI mode. Interactive material previews and light layer thumbnails. RGB colour curves and snappy trackball navigation.

These are just some of the new features making Indigo 4 the most streamlined and enjoyable version yet.

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And a lot more ...

Fast SSS

Material preview

RGB colour curves

Interactive multi-region rendering

Light Layer thumbnails

Faster CPU Rendering

Queue override settings

Adaptive resolution

Contribution clamping

Trackball navigation

Filmic tonemapping

Measured BRDF support

Interactive aperture controls

Faster tonemapping

Pixel info picker

Adjustable light sampling

OpenEXR output settings

Improved MLT rendering

Optimised material models

Faster subdiv & displacement

ALL ABOUT INDIGO 4

Raucherhof

by Impulse

Viper Studio Crop

by Oscar J

Petrol Station

by O-23

Interior

by bubs

Cryptocephalus

by Gabich

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The rendering quality is awesome, and it's so fast than I can set up scene lighting with our technical art director about seven times faster than with our other render engine

Mateusz Sroka, Platige Image

Indigo is usually my go-to renderer: it handles massive scenes very well. It loads fast, it's reliable, doesn't crash and produces beautiful results

Tom Svilans, architect

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"We simply love the lighting and the realistic look. Without the need of tweaking and faking light situations or GI render settings, Indigo simply renders it as it is... and so we can fully concentrate on color grading and subtle post production. Almost like you would do it with real filmed footage."

- David Gudelius, Senior CGI Artist

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"... 35K objects, 201 million polygons, 804 light sources and hundreds of materials. Indigo crunched through this data without issues and allowed a workflow with quick previews and great output quality without tweaking 1001 settings like in some other renderers. With this reliability I could focus on content creation and tweaking material in the project."

- Arthur Liebnau, Freelance CGI artist

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News

8 Jun 2012

Detailed telescope renders by Axel Ritter

Indigo user Axel Ritter (forum username ritter) has been working on an incredibly detailed telescope model; both the geometry (e.g. thumbscrews) and the materials are exceptionally detailed, click the thumbnail below to see a full-sized image: For more information and renders please see the...

8 Jun 2012

New Indigo for Revit version with texture support

We have recently released a new version of Indigo for Revit, in which we added, among other things, support for textures in the material conversion. This simplifies the workflow a lot and it is now much easier to make decent visualisations with no manual changes on the materials at all. This R...

18 May 2012

2 days remaining in Indigo 3.2 release sale

There are just two days remaining in our 33% off sale, which we are running to celebrate the release of Indigo 3.2. Until the end of May 20, Indigo Renderer will be available for €399 (normally €595), Indigo RT for €99 (normally €145) and Indigo 2.x to Indigo 3.x upgrades for €149 (norm...

18 May 2012

Cryptocephalus by Gabich

Indigo user Gabich has created some wonderful renders of the Cryptocephalus beetle, using Indigo. You can read the forum thread here: http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11586

25 Apr 2012

Indigo 3.2 Release and Sale

Glare Technologies is proud to announce the release of Indigo Renderer 3.2, the world's most photorealistic rendering system. To celebrate the release of Indigo 3.2, we're running a 33% off sale until the 20th of May! Indigo 3.2 introduces new features such as the groundbreaking new sun & sky ...

18 Apr 2012

Simple interior renderings by dcm and Zom-B

Indigo users dcm and Zom-B posted these "simple" interior renderings in the Simple Renderings Thread (which is notoriously full of not-so-simple renderings). There is also a new spin-off thread, specifically for simple interiors: Simple Interiors Thread (Click on the images for full resolution...