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

Red9 ProPack gets new tools created for Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Maya animation toolkit for VFX and games gets new tools developed for Red9's character rigging work on the latest Sonic movie.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

JangaFX teases IlluGen

The EmberGen dev's new app will be a 'better way to create the majority of assets' for VFX in games. Here's what we know about it so far.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Tutorial: Creating Runtime Cinematics in Unreal Engine 5

Master key workflows for integrating character animation into interactive gameplay in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Saturday, January 25th, 2025

PhotoLine 25 now reads Cryptomatte data

Check out the new features in the sub-$100 image editing app, including support for Cryptomatte data when retouching 3D renders.

Friday, January 24th, 2025

New version of iOS and Android scanning app Kiri Engine

Kiri Engine 3.13 improves the quality of 3D Gaussian Splatting in the app, sharpening scans and reducing 3DGS file sizes 'approximately 50%'.

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

RE:Vision Effects launches Twixtor Standalone

GPU-accelerated, AI-powered video retiming tool can now be used without a host app, for under half the price of a regular plugin license.

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

See the new features due in Unreal Engine 5.6 and beyond

Check out upcoming features in the game engine, from rendering and simulation to Megaworlds biomes, next-gen terrain and Anim Next.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Left Angle releases Autograph 2025

Big update to the compositing and motion design app adds a DaVinci Resolve Live Link, an After Effects converter - and a new free edition.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Check out this GPU-accelerated Houdini Skin Slide Deformer

DNEG TD Mengya Zhang's OpenCL-based tool generates realistic skin sliding without tissue simulation. Free to try on personal projects.

Monday, January 20th, 2025

Check out this free 2D Rim Light Tool for Nuke

Compositing Academy's handy add-on creates fake rim lighting on 2D images for title sequences and motion graphics using only an alpha.

Monday, January 20th, 2025