Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1
Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
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Creators of Pixar and Disney's hair tech win Academy Awards
Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
Discover how a Gnomon Workshop tutorial is created
Follow instructor Eric Keller as he creates Introduction to Maya 2020, his detailed new Gnomon tutorial.
Friday, January 1st, 2021
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.4 and Maya LT 2020.4
Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, including a big update to its Bifrost toolset.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Nvidia launches the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
New $399 8GB card outperforms the old RTX 2080 Super in Arnold, Blender, Redshift and V-Ray 5.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2021.3
Update to the 3D software adds new retopology tools and support for bloom effects in the viewport.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists
Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 30th, 2020
Autodesk previews next-gen tech coming to Shotgun
Generative Scheduling and Asset Lifecycle Management are the 'future of production management'.
Monday, November 23rd, 2020
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Maya 2020
Master modelling, animation, effects and rendering in Maya with this comprehensive tutorial series.
Saturday, November 14th, 2020
Which CG applications support Apple's new M1 chips?
Discover which 3D, image-editing and rendering apps will support the first Apple Silicon processors when they ship next week.
Friday, November 13th, 2020
Autodesk ships RV 2021
Image viewer and shot playback tool for VFX and animation gets support for Python 3, new long-term Available Previous Versions.
Thursday, November 5th, 2020