Is V-Ray for Blender back in active development?

Chaos is working on the integration between its V-Ray renderer and the open-source 3D software 'right now', according to its latest livestream.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 5.7 for Maya and 5.8 for 3ds Max

Sizeable updates to the shattering and dynamics plugin add new Fast Stacking & Deactivation solver, new fracturing and simulation controls.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

NVIDIA unveils new RTX 500 and RTX 1000 pro laptop GPUs

New 4GB and 6GB cards round out the low end of the Ada Generation GPUs for mobile workstations. Check out their other key specs.

Monday, February 26th, 2024

Create stylized facial expressions in ZBrush and Character Creator

[Sponsored] The new ZBrush Face Tools plugin for Character Creator makes crafting expressions for 3D characters easy. Here's how it works.

Monday, February 26th, 2024

Tutorial: Creating Realistic Fabric & Clothing for Games

Discover how to create realistic 3D clothing using Marvelous Designer and ZBrush with The Gnomon Workhop's new tutorial.

Saturday, February 24th, 2024

Adobe releases Photoshop 25.5

Check out the latest features in the image-editing software, including the option to create and share custom Adjustment Presets.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2024.3

Motion graphics and 3D animation app gets better workflow with ZBrush and Substance 3D materials, expanded glTF and USD export.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

Maxon releases Redshift 3.5.24

Production renderer gets native support for the hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology in Apple's new M3 processors.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link 1.3

iClone-to-Unreal Engine live link can now bake complete crowd animations to single sequences in Unreal Engine. Free for indie artists.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 2

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Tutorial: Design Futuristic Architecture Using Blender

Discover a complete concept design workflow based around the open-source 3D software with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Saturday, February 17th, 2024

Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs

Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.

Friday, February 16th, 2024

Blender Foundation unveils Project Baklava

Check out Blender's work-in-progress layered animation system, including the roadmap, tech demos - and some very early UI mockups.

Friday, February 16th, 2024