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

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

Ephere releases Ornatrix 3 for Cinema 4D

Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.

Friday, November 15th, 2024

Epic Games to share new free assets on Fab every two weeks

New batches of commercial tools and assets will be made available free on the online marketplace for two weeks, every two weeks.

Thursday, November 7th, 2024

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max

Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

Check out Wonder Studio's new Wonder Animation feature

New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024