Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2

3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0

Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021

See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

Watch VIEW Conference 2021 for free

See the international VFX and animation conference free online, or in person in Turin from 17-22 October 2021.

Sunday, October 10th, 2021

Discover expert techniques for building 3D environments

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides time-saving tricks for Clarisse, Houdini and SpeedTree.

Friday, October 8th, 2021

Eye candy: Chaos's 2021 V-Ray showreel

See the best VFX and animation work created with V-Ray, plus tech breakdowns of the key projects.

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021

Maxon releases public beta of Redshift RT

New hybrid rasterisation/ray tracing mode provides a high-quality real-time preview of Redshift scenes.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

hdRstr ray traces thousands of area lights in real time

Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

Redshift goes subscription-only

Perpetual licences of the GPU renderer discontinued in favour of subscription plans. See the prices for individuals and teams here.

Tuesday, August 31st, 2021

Weta Digital unveils WetaH

New cloud service to provide studios of all sizes with access to the Academy Award-winning VFX facility's in-house Houdini tools.

Saturday, August 28th, 2021

Redshift gets new 'Easy' UI

Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.

Thursday, August 12th, 2021

Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation

Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.

Monday, August 2nd, 2021