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.
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.READ MORE
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
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 engineMateusz 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 resultsTom 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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- 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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- Arthur Liebnau, Freelance CGI artist
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News
Indigo Renderer 3.0 and Indigo RT
Glare Technologies is proud to announce the release of Indigo Renderer version 3.0 and Indigo RT. This update brings many usability refinements and improvements to the rendering engine, and to celebrate its release we're running a 33% off sale until 11th of July.
Indigo Renderer 3.0 is a generati...
READ MOREIndigo Renderer 3.0 Preview
Indigo Renderer 3.0 introduces several next-generation features such as interactive scene editing and camera controls, all powered by a supercharged rendering engine which now supports GPU acceleration for both CUDA and OpenCL.
Seamlessly edit displacement maps and material shaders in the same in...
READ MOREIndigo Merchandise Store
By popular demand!
The Indigo Merchandise Store, where you can buy all your cool Indigo threads.
The official Indigo Renderer merchandise store.
READ MOREThe Ranch Renderfarm Blitz
The Ranch Renderfarm is running a promotion that gives you 5 minutes for free on their renderfarm. 5 minutes on the Ranch is equivalent to 4 hours on a 12-core/24-thread MacPro or 10 hours on a Core i7 computer.
The Ranch works very well with Indigo, and 5 minutes will likely get you a beautif...
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Winners of Steampunk Competition
And here are the winners! We had just 7 entries, but with the incredibly high quality of some of the entries, it was a difficult decision.
1st Place: Solarray
Full 2.0 Licence & Gold forum badge
2nd Place: Camox
Indigo T-Shirt & Node licence & Silver forum badge
3rd Place: Bacon
Indi...
READ MOREArtist Feature: Piotr Lusnia
An Indigo community heavyweight, Piotr Lusnia, also known as hcpiter on our forum, is the creator of many outstandingly realistic architectural visualisations. Hailing from Poland, Piotr has been a valued forum member since Feb 2010 and kindly agreed to doing this feature.
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