Eye candy: Chaos's 2023 V-Ray VFX & Animation showreel

See the best new visual effects and motion graphics rendered with V-Ray - then check out technical breakdowns of the key projects.

Friday, September 1st, 2023

Radical launches Radical Live

New AI-based service extracts multi-actor motion data from video in real time, and streams it to Blender, Maya, Unity or UE5.

Friday, September 1st, 2023

Luxion buys Digizuite

KeyShot developer aims to provide users with a 'full-service design solution' though its buyout of the digital asset management provider.

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

Ynput launches free VFX and animation pipeline Ayon

Updated, now in beta: open-source framework connects VFX tools into a coherent USD-ready pipeline.

Friday, August 25th, 2023

Check out neat Blender plugin Baga Ivy Generator 2

Appealing add-on lets you 'draw' ivy - and 70 other species of plants - directly onto your 3D meshes.

Monday, August 21st, 2023

Polygonflow's Dash automates world building in UE5

Unreal Engine add-on lets users assemble environments via drag and drop and simple text prompts.

Friday, August 18th, 2023

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.3

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including faster GPU rendering, and Apple Silicon support for Houdini users.

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

Unity releases Ziva VFX 2.2

Maya muscle and soft tissue simulation plugin gets new CUDA-based GPU solver, plus option to visualise stretching in the viewport.

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

Firefly is coming to Omniverse

Check out the Summer 2023 updates to Nvidia's online design platform, plus plans to integrate Adobe's generative AI toolset.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps

Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Tutorial: Creating a Monolithic City in Unreal Engine 5

Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Sunday, August 6th, 2023

AWS releases Deadline 10.3

Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

QuiltiX: a new open-source MaterialX material editor

Free node-based tool lets users author MaterialX materials for use in renderers like Arnold and Karma.

Thursday, August 3rd, 2023