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
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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
See the new features due in Unreal Engine 5.6 and beyond
Check out upcoming features in the game engine, from rendering and simulation to Megaworlds biomes, next-gen terrain and Anim Next.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Get the new free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine
Free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and VFX comes with four free stock explosion and tornado effects.
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Free tool: Hair Cinematic Tool for Unreal Engine 5
Argentum Studio's in-house tool gives access to Unreal Engine 5's internal settings to improve the look of hair and fur in your renders.
Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
Master World Building using Blender and Photoshop
Discover how to create story-rich environment concept art for games and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Monday, January 13th, 2025
Tutorial: Creating a Swamp & Mud Monster in Houdini
Create a creature, environment and FX simulation entirely in Houdini with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly new tutorial.
Saturday, January 4th, 2025
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists
Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
RandomControl releases Maverick Indie and Maverick Studio 2024
Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including initial USD support and a complete new animation system.
Monday, December 23rd, 2024
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2024.30
Check out the new features in the sculpting and retopology app, including integration with RealityCapture for photogrammetry.
Monday, December 23rd, 2024
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.8
Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.
Friday, December 20th, 2024