Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Chaos Czech ships Corona 9

3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer gets new procedural clouds and geometry replication systems. Subscription pricing overhauled.

Monday, October 17th, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp

SketchUp edition of the renderer now supports lights and materials from visualisation app Enscape.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D

Check out the new features in this major update to the renderer, several unique to the C4D edition.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2022

Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max

Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.

Thursday, July 7th, 2022

Sebastian Schäfer releases Storm 0.6

Standalone granular fluid, liquid and smoke simulation tool now supports cloth and soft bodies.

Thursday, May 26th, 2022

Chaos Czech ships Corona 8 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Major update to the renderer adds new object scattering, decal and cutaway systems, plus new pricing.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022

Cebas launches finalFluid for 3ds Max

Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.

Tuesday, March 15th, 2022

5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists

Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2021

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2

Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

Get started with Houdini's Pyro FX toolset

New two-part Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides a detailed guide to Houdini smoke and fire simulations.

Saturday, November 6th, 2021