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 Nov 2016

Indigo 4.0.46 Beta Release

We have released a new beta of Indigo Renderer, which adds a lot of improvements to realtime material editing during OpenCL rendering, and greatly reduces the amount of OpenCL rebuilds needed. Watch Indigo user Oscar J use the latest beta: Many other important features has been added sin...

22 Sep 2016

IndigoBench: benchmark your GPUs and CPUs!

We've always enjoyed looking at benchmark results from e.g. Cinebench, since they give a good indication of how the machine will perform for rendering. Some people like fast cars, some like fast rendering engines and GPUs... with IndigoBench you can have both! Besides this, it's just fun to marvel a...

4 Aug 2016

Animation feature - Recreational Vehicle

Senior 3D artist David Gudelius and his company Michel De Vries have created this beautiful, cinematic CGI trailer for the launch of Niesmann+Bischoff's new RV, "Smove". Thanks for agreeing to do this feature with us David! Could you tell us something about the background of the project? ...

30 Jun 2016

We're hiring plugin developers!

Glare Technologies is looking to hire new developers to work on our 3D application plugins, to ensure an efficient and production ready workflow for Indigo 4 and beyond. We are primarily looking for a SketchUp plugin developer and a 3ds Max plugin developer, initially. However plugin development...

17 Jun 2016

Indigo 4.0.38 Beta Release

We have been working hard on a new beta release, which brings quite a few long-awaited features to Indigo and its new OpenCL rendering core! Download links on the forum: http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14024 Here's a quick overview of some of the new features: Contri...

7 Apr 2016

Indigo 4 public beta release

Exciting news for fans of GPU rendering: the Indigo 4 public beta is out! After a long development period a first beta of Indigo 4 is ready to make some amazing images at blazing speeds, using all your OpenCL devices - NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs are all welcome to the rendering party :D Pl...