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Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets OCIO color management, DLSS 4, and new lens distortion system.

Thursday, February 13th, 2025

Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Royalty-free open-source codec for professional video production is the VFX industry standards body's latest hosted project.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new machine-learning-assisted Morph tool.

Friday, October 25th, 2024

3D texture painting and material authoring software gets SVG import, new drag and drop workflows, and better handling of translucency.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

Ever use Gigapixel AI to upscale your 3D renders? Check out its newly revamped AI-based sibling app for upresing video to up to 8K.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

Get stock snow images for use in VFX and matte painting. Pre-keyed 2K PNG files, for commercial use.

Sunday, February 20th, 2022

See what's new in this performance-focused update to Maxon's suite of After Effects plugins for common VFX tasks.

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021

Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Online library of source images for matte painters now available as 16-bit DNG RAW and 32-bit EXR files, along with 360-degree HDRI skies.

Tuesday, June 29th, 2021

Download this detailed free texture map to recreate the lunar surface in 3D. Licensed for commercial use.

Sunday, February 21st, 2021

Create detailed renders of the planet's surface from space with this huge free 16-bit texture map.

Thursday, January 21st, 2021

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020