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Autodesk Arnold is a modern ray tracer designed to efficiently render the complex geometry in CGI animation and VFX films.

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Joined August 2012
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Arnold 7.5.4 is out It's a sizeable update to the renderer, adding a new Imager shader for building post effects interactively, a dedicated Rim Light shader and the option to pause and resume renders cgchannel.com/2026/10/autode… #ArnoldRenderer #rendering #VFX @arnoldrenderer
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You can now render with Arnold directly inside the #3dsMax viewport, without having to use ActiveShade #Cinema4D users can also render directly to the C4D viewport Find out more in our story on the new features in Arnold 7.5.4: cgchannel.com/2026/10/autode… @arnoldrenderer
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Arnold 7.5.4.0 is a feature release that includes a Shader Imager for interactive compositing, a faster and more responsive accelerated viewport, the ability to pause and resume renders, Rim Light shader, and more. help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL… #arnoldrenderer
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Artwork for DMVU's new single, Teleidoscope
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Arnold 7.5.3 is out. Check out the new features in the production renderer, including new BSDF nodes for toon shading and this new Accelerated Viewport mode for Maya users. cgchannel.com/2026/07/autode… #ArnoldRenderer #Maya #rendering #VFX #animation @arnoldrenderer
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Arnold can now import, relight and render 3D Gaussian Splats Check out the other new features in the renderer, including updates to toon shading and experimental free cloud rendering service Flow Render cgchannel.com/2026/06/autode… #ArnoldRenderer #3DGS #VFX @arnoldrenderer
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Arnold 7.5.2.0 includes Gaussian Splats, improved quality of noice denoiser, faster GPU scene updates, full UsdLux support, new Tone Zones shader, Shader to RGBA and more. help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL… #arnoldrenderer
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There was always something fishy about that job 🐟 #Houdini @arnoldrenderer #CGI #NoAI
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It's hard to film cute talking ducklings. Better do it in 3D! #Houdini @arnoldrenderer #CGI #NoAI
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One hundred percent handcrafted, from the first polygon to the last strand of hair—adorable little ducks. #Houdini @arnoldrenderer #CGI #NoAI
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