Sneak peek: Corona 10

Check out the new features due in the next major update to the renderer - including proper support for the camera inside volumes.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Humanoid 3D Character

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2023.3

3D modelling and rendering app gets new OSL maps to create organic noise and randomise UVs.

Thursday, December 8th, 2022

Chaos releases Chaos Player Update 1

Image sequence viewer gets new Contacts Sheet system for viewing render elements and shot variants.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp

SketchUp edition of the renderer now supports lights and materials from visualisation app Enscape.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D

Check out the new features in this major update to the renderer, several unique to the C4D edition.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2022

Eye candy: Chaos's 2022 V-Ray showreels

See the best new VFX and arch viz work created with V-Ray, along with tech breakdowns of key projects.

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022

Nvidia unveils next-generation RTX 6000 workstation GPU

New 48GB GPU will be the first professional card based on Nvidia's new Ada Lovelace architecture.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

Nvidia fully open-sources MDL

Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

Chaos releases Chaos Vantage 1.8

Check out the new features in the real-time tool for exploring V-Ray scenes, like the new cloud system.

Monday, July 18th, 2022

iToo Software releases Forest Pack 7.4.3 for 3ds Max

Scattering plugin gets support for V-Ray 6, plus new options for replacing scene objects by name.

Thursday, July 14th, 2022