Eye candy: Chaos's 2021 V-Ray showreel
See the best VFX and animation work created with V-Ray, plus tech breakdowns of the key projects.
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
3ds max
Download free Maya object scattering tool Ecotope
Check out Polygonflow's scattering tool, available with the trial of its GraphN visual programming app.
Sunday, September 19th, 2021
Enter the 2021 Hum3D Car Render Challenge
Enter the top CG art contest before 8 December, and you could win prizes worth thousands of dollars.
Sunday, September 19th, 2021
cebas ships thinkingParticles 7 for 3ds Max
Powerful multiphysics plugin gets new MPM solvers to simulate granular fluids like sand and snow.
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Maxon releases public beta of Redshift RT
New hybrid rasterisation/ray tracing mode provides a high-quality real-time preview of Redshift scenes.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Autodesk gets a new logo
Updated: new corporate brand system and font now joined by new product logos for 3ds Max, Maya, Mudbox and MotionBuilder.
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
Alexey Vanzhula releases Soft Boolean for Houdini
Real-time Boolean modelling toolkit can also be used inside apps that support Houdini Engine, like Maya.
Friday, September 3rd, 2021
Get Adobe's Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender
Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
Redshift goes subscription-only
Perpetual licences of the GPU renderer discontinued in favour of subscription plans. See the prices for individuals and teams here.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
3d-io ships Unwrella 4 for 3ds Max and Maya
Free update to the UV unwrapping tool adds neat UV packing system and Projection unwrapping mode.
Thursday, August 12th, 2021
Redshift gets new 'Easy' UI
Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.
Thursday, August 12th, 2021
Nvidia unveils RTX A2000
New $450 cellphone-sized 6GB GPU is Nvidia's smallest and cheapest Ampere workstation card. Check out its key technical specs.
Wednesday, August 11th, 2021
Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse
Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021