Is AI replacing render farms?

[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.3

Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.

Thursday, February 13th, 2025

Free tools: Render Manager and Light Editor for Blender

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

Chaos releases Beta 2 of the new V-Ray for Blender

Updated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available

Friday, February 7th, 2025

See five great VFX breakdowns from the 2025 V-Ray showreel

See breakdowns of five key movies, TV series, cinematics and animated shorts created in V-Ray from Chaos's latest showreel.

Monday, February 3rd, 2025

How Vine FX created a parasitic underwater forest for The Rig

Discover how the VFX studio used procedural growth simulation to create the environment for Amazon Prime Video's supernatural thriller.

Friday, January 31st, 2025

Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Get 6 free smoke and fire effects sequences from FX BackPack

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Tik Manager 4 is a lightweight, robust open-source pipeline tool

Promising project management tool for VFX, animation and games is intuitive enough for non-TDs, but robust enough for bigger projects.

Monday, January 6th, 2025

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.7

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Wild Robot.

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

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

Pixar releases RenderMan 26.3

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.

Thursday, December 19th, 2024

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.2

GPU renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering options and a USD Command Line Rendering tool for use on render farms.

Thursday, December 5th, 2024