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

cebas ships thinkingParticles 7 for 3ds Max

Powerful multiphysics plugin gets new MPM solvers to simulate granular fluids like sand and snow.

Thursday, September 16th, 2021

Autodesk ships Bifrost for Maya 2.3

Maya's multiphysics plugin now lets you adjust properties interactively, and see the results in real time.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2021

Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 7

Updated: 3ds Max and Cinema 4D editions of the renderer both ship. Check out their new features here.

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

Check out neat free Houdini sparse GPU fluid solver Axiom

Updated: See what's new in Build 6 of the GPU-based alternative to Houdini's own Sparse Pyro solver.

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021

Otoy ships Sculptron 1.1

GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

Deep FX Studio 1.3 ships

Check out the new features in Deep FX World's standalone multiphysics simulation and procedural animation software.

Tuesday, May 4th, 2021

Chaos Czech previews Corona Renderer 7

Check out the new features due in the next major update to the 3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer.

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021

Discover 10 key new features from Blender 2.92

Discover the most important new tools in the open-source 3D app, from geometry nodes to APIC sims.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.10

GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free.

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D

Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.

Friday, December 11th, 2020