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

2 Jul 2010

Indigo for Revit Beta 2 for Revit 2009/2010 released

We released a new beta version of Indigo for Revit for 2009 and 2010. It features an updated material system, Material Database integration, external materials (so you can link materials created with the material editor) and more. We are still working on the 2011 version and we'll release it a...

24 Jun 2010

A SSS Spider

A great spider by Dakiru, showing some nice sub surface scattering (a technique we support for rubbery / waxy materials).

29 May 2010

Lovely camox renders

Camox, from Berlin - has posted a selection of great Indigo renders, some of which only took 30 minutes to resolve, although he doesn't give times for this one - I think it's fantastic:

27 May 2010

Indigo Renderer Opensource Projects

We're working on opensourcing the non-core parts of our business - we'll do a proper announcement later when we have more done - but for now - you can access the newly relicenced Indigo Scene Format Technical Reference at github.com: http://indigorenderer.github.com/ The source code to this pa...

27 May 2010

Educational pricing

Our educational pricing is no longer hidden away behind our sales@indigorenderer email - you can now access it directly at: http://store.glaretechnologies.com/educational/ The price is 150€ for a student or 195€ for a tutor. We have sold over 50 educational licences and have decided to ...

26 May 2010

Indigo Sale

To celebrate the upcoming release of Indigo GPU acceleration we’re offering Indigo licences at a 25% discount. This offer is valid until the 7th of June. Go to the store to purchase a licence at these prices. These licences are 2.x licences and will include access to the new GPU version of Indi...