Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4
Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.
Monday, May 24th, 2021
V-Ray
Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0
Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Motiva ships Layama 1.5
Datasmith creator's unusual tool for turning 3ds Max, Blender and UE4 scenes into 'pseudo VR' gets new option to add interactive hotspots.
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Chaos releases Phoenix 4.40 for 3ds Max and Maya
New update to the fluid simulator once known as Phoenix FD adds collision between floating objects.
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Download free parallax maps from wParallax
Add fake 3D interiors to buildings with these 1K and 3K EXR textures for 3ds Max, C4D and Blender. Commercial use.
Monday, March 22nd, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
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
Chaos rolls out Chaos Cosmos
New online library of architectural 3D models is optimised for V-Ray and Chaos Vantage. Free to users of selected versions of V-Ray 5.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Chaos Group becomes Chaos
V-Ray developer gets snappier new name and new set of product logos, designed by leading arch viz and branding agency Uniform.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Pulze ships Post Manager 1.2
Arch viz workflow tool automates assembly of Photoshop files from elements rendered in V-Ray, Corona - and now FStormRender.
Monday, February 22nd, 2021
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