Foundry releases Mari 7.0

3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes

Monday, December 4th, 2023

Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 2

Sizeable update to the production renderer adds MaterialX support, new Enscape bridge, and updates to V-Ray GPU and Chaos Scatter.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Tutorial: Creating Stopmotion Felt in Substance 3D Designer

Get to grips with the powerful procedural material-authoring software with The Gnomon Workshop's artist-friendly guide.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2023

Chaos releases Vantage 2.1

Real-time ray tracing renderer becomes first DCC app to support NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 and its AI-trained Ray Reconstruction denoiser.

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

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

Chaos acquires AXYZ design

V-Ray and Corona developer buys the creator of architectural crowd animation tool anima and the metropoly range of 3D characters.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2023

Chaos releases Vantage 2.0

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini Update 2

Check out the latest changes to the Houdini edition of V-Ray, including a new unified installer, and updates to the Hydra render delegate for Solaris.

Wednesday, June 14th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp Update 1

Check out the new features in the SketchUp edition of renderer, like cutaway rendering in V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Tutorial: Mech Illustration with Character & Story

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create 3D illustrations with a hand-drawn feel.

Wednesday, May 31st, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D Update 1

C4D edition of the renderer gets V-Ray Toon material, Chaos Scatter, and improved MoGraph support.

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023

Sneak peek: Chaos Scatter in V-Ray for Maya

Chaos's versatile object scattering tool is coming to the Maya edition of the renderer. See a demo here.

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 1

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023