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

Chaos releases Vantage 2.8

Real-time renderer gets support for light linking, lens effects, and Shader Execution Reordering on NVIDIA GPUs. See all the new features.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

Chaos releases Vantage 2.7

Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets OCIO color management, DLSS 4, and new lens distortion system.

Thursday, February 13th, 2025

Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 6 for Maya

Destruction plugin for games and VFX gets a new Edge Fracture Tool, and improvements to clustering and simulation performance.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Photoshop render compositing add-on Post Manager is now free

Pulze's handy add-on streamlines the process of building and updating complex Photoshop files from V-Ray or Corona renders.

Sunday, January 5th, 2025

Ephere releases Ornatrix 3 for Cinema 4D

Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.

Friday, November 15th, 2024

Chaos releases Vantage 2.6

Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.

Saturday, October 26th, 2024

Free tool: KitBash3D's Cargo

Now available for Mac: get access to 150+ free 3D models and materials for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya and UE5 with KitBash3D's asset browser

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

Group test: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series and Super Series GPUs

Discover which NVIDIA GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests, including Blender, Maya and UE5.

Friday, August 30th, 2024

Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2024.5

Sizeable update to the tracking app extends the new 3D tracking toolset, and adds Alembic export and direct export to After Effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2024

Group test: AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Series workstation GPUs

Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, July 25th, 2024

Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024