Free tools: Render Manager and Light Editor for Blender
VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
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See CG benchmarks for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.
Friday, February 7th, 2025
Chaos releases Beta 2 of the new V-Ray for Blender
Updated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available
Friday, February 7th, 2025
LightWave Digital previews LightWave 2025
Check out the new features due in the 3D software, including the RIPD real-time preview, a new cel shader, and updates to character rigging.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
See five great VFX breakdowns from the 2025 V-Ray showreel
See breakdowns of five key movies, TV series, cinematics and animated shorts created in V-Ray from Chaos's latest showreel.
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
How Vine FX created a parasitic underwater forest for The Rig
Discover how the VFX studio used procedural growth simulation to create the environment for Amazon Prime Video's supernatural thriller.
Friday, January 31st, 2025
Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 6 for Maya
Destruction plugin for games and VFX gets a new Edge Fracture Tool, and improvements to clustering and simulation performance.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Adobe launches unmetered access to Substance 3D Assets
Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Houdini
Check out the new features in the renderer, including a new Houdini-specific volume shader and better integration with Solaris.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Maya
Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Red9 ProPack gets new tools created for Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Maya animation toolkit for VFX and games gets new tools developed for Red9's character rigging work on the latest Sonic movie.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
JangaFX teases IlluGen
The EmberGen dev's new app will be a 'better way to create the majority of assets' for VFX in games. Here's what we know about it so far.
Monday, January 27th, 2025
Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0
Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.
Monday, January 27th, 2025