See five great VFX breakdowns from the 2025 V-Ray showreel
See breakdowns of five key movies, TV series, cinematics and animated shorts created in V-Ray from Chaos's latest showreel.
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
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Check out free Android and iOS 3D scanning app RealityScan 1.6
Update to Epic Games' free app provides more control over scans, with the option to create 1-million-poly models with 8K textures.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Houdini
Check out the new features in the renderer, including a new Houdini-specific volume shader and better integration with Solaris.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Maya
Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Get 6 free smoke and fire effects sequences from FX BackPack
Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.
Sunday, January 12th, 2025
Tik Manager 4 is a lightweight, robust open-source pipeline tool
Promising project management tool for VFX, animation and games is intuitive enough for non-TDs, but robust enough for bigger projects.
Monday, January 6th, 2025
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists
Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
Cell Fluids 2.0 for Blender is out
Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for SketchUp
SketchUp edition of the renderer gets support for 3D Gaussian Splats, luminaires for lighting, and new material override options.
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2026.1 in alpha
Experimental preview showcases new tech in development for the GPU renderer, including native MaterialX and 3DGS support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Epic Games releases RealityCapture 1.5
Big update to the photogrammetry app adds USD export and new options aimed at games and VFX. Free to indie artists and studios.
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2024.3
Big update to the real-time terrain generator adds new snow and debris simulation tools, and changes pricing and licensing.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2024