Chaos Group buys Corona developer Render Legion

Both V-Ray and Corona keep their original dev teams, but tech will be shared between the two renderers.

Sunday, August 27th, 2017

Autodesk makes Arnold free to schools and colleges

Free educational licences now available. Price of commercial subscriptions halved when renting in blocks of five.

Friday, August 18th, 2017

Sergio Mucino releases maxTD Rigging Toolbox for Modo

Former Rodeo FX artist's suite of personal tools simplifies the task of creating complex mechanical rigs.

Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5

Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.

Monday, July 31st, 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

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.1

Update to game engine adds new cinematics tools, improved sprite editing, particles and animation.

Wednesday, July 12th, 2017

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2017's technical papers

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from cutting-edge fluid sims to ways to model tentacles.

Monday, June 19th, 2017

Download HitFilm Express 2017 for free

Free editing and compositing app gets new audio and 360 degree video tools; support for 4K footage.

Friday, May 19th, 2017

Silicon Studio ships Xenko 2.0

Rendering middleware firm's 'next-level C# game engine' now shipping commercially, but still free to individuals and indie studios.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Foundry unveils Elara

New cloud-based service will provide a complete VFX pipeline in a web browser, including software, storage, rendering and analytics.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Foundry releases Modo 11.0

New modelling options and support for OpenSubdiv 3.0, but the main news this time round is the new rental and maintenance plans.

Monday, April 24th, 2017

Master Environment Creation for Film and Cinematics

New Gnomon tutorial reveals how to create a photorealistic 3D environment from start to finish.

Sunday, April 2nd, 2017

3d-io ships Unwrella 3.10

Long-established automatic UV unfolding plugin for 3ds Max and Maya gets fast new flatten unwrap mode for hard-surface objects.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017