Check out Pulze's promising new 3ds Max Render Manager

Neat app auto-detects common 3ds Max plugins and performs 'sanity checks' to fix common V-Ray and Corona errors.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

Pixologic releases ZBrushCore 2020

Cut-down edition of ZBrush gets long-awaited new features like SubTool folders and Sculptris Pro.

Sunday, December 22nd, 2019

Discover how to get your first job in the CG industry

See artists from top VFX, animation and games studios reveal their career tips at Gnomon next week. Watch online for free.

Wednesday, August 14th, 2019

Blackmagic Design ships DaVinci Resolve 16.0

Grading and editing app gets AI-driven 'Neural Engine' to automate repetitive tasks, new effects tools.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

10 expert tips for managing a visual effects project

Keep your post-production on track by following VFX producer Julia Kerguelen's 10 real-world rules.

Thursday, July 4th, 2019

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.6 for Maya

Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat anatomy transfer function ports rigs from one character to another.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

SideFX launches PilotPDG

Standalone pipeline tool lets studios build new VFX, game dev and machine learning workflows around Houdini's new PDG tech.

Friday, March 15th, 2019

Maxon ships Cinebench R20

Popular free tool for benchmarking graphics workstations now properly stresses modern CPUs, but the GPU benchmark has gone entirely.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service

Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

Get SideFX's free AliceVision photogrammetry plugin

New plugin makes it possible to use the open-source image-based modelling framework from Houdini.

Friday, February 22nd, 2019

Check out new open-source VFX render manager OpenCue

Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.

Friday, January 25th, 2019

Asolve launches Render Node Monitor 2.0

New cloud-based 3ds Max render management system is aimed at freelancers and smaller studios.

Monday, December 24th, 2018

Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0

Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018