Sneak peek: Corona's neat new 'one click' caustics system

Renderer's fast, intuitive new system aims to make caustics a 'mainstream effect' in production.

Friday, May 17th, 2019

Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

Videos: see Siggraph Asia 2018's best technical papers

Watch the best tech demos from the show - from advances in VR to new ways to melt your CG dragon.

Tuesday, November 20th, 2018

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1

Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.4 for Maya

Powerful tissue simulation plugin gets support for Maya Fields, new tools to grow or shrink muscles.

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018

Pixologic ships ZBrush 2018.1

Free patch improves speed and stability when sculpting in ZBrush; adds a few new workflow features.

Thursday, June 21st, 2018

Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya v2

Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action

New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.6

3ds Max particle tool gets neat new 'All Purpose Fields' to help art direct simulations, OpenVDB support.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Create free CG characters with Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.6.1

Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.

Sunday, January 28th, 2018

SideFX releases Houdini 16.5

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Santhosh Koneru: a visual effects director's progress

The Blur Studio artist discusses his award-winning short, The Legion, and new CG project The Vikings.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017

Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R8

Updated: Long-awaited update to the sculpting tool adds real-time Booleans, vector displacement meshes, eight new deformers.

Tuesday, June 13th, 2017