Master Architectural Design for Games using Blender & UE5
Discover how to create game environments grounded in architectural principles with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Monday, June 9th, 2025
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Chaos updates V-Ray, Corona and Enscape subscription plans
Node-locked licenses of the renderers ended, new ArchDesign, ArchViz and M&E Collection product bundles launched.
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Review: HP Z4 Rack G5 rackmount workstation
How does HP's rackable graphics workstation compare to a desktop system in real-world rendering and CG tests? Jason Lewis finds out.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
SPECviewperf 15 adds Blender and UE5 tests to the benchmark
New version of the veteran graphics benchmark for testing workstations reflects recent changes to CG software and industry pipelines.
Monday, May 5th, 2025
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1.1
Check out the latest features in the real-time visualization software, including support for DLSS 4 and a new procedural 3D grass material.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Free tool: get character animation from Cinema 4D to Unreal Engine
Big update to the Cineware for Unreal plugin makes it possible to transfer rigged and animated characters to Unreal Engine 5.5.
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Chaos launches Chaos Arena
'First ever path-tracing solution' for virtual production lets studios render existing V-Ray assets on LED walls in real time for in-camera VFX.
Monday, March 31st, 2025
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1
Sizeable update to the real-time visualization app adds volumetric clouds, Virtual Shadow Maps and automatic LOD generation.
Wednesday, February 19th, 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
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
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
Check out Blender's experimental anime rendering builds
New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2024