Tutorial: Creating Production-Ready Hero Assets Using Mari
Master professional asset development workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced-level tutorial.
Sunday, March 9th, 2025
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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
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.19
Check out the new features in the production renderer, and its Blender, Cinema 4D and Houdini plugins.
Thursday, September 14th, 2023
Adobe discontinues Photoshop's 3D features
Still available in current builds for a 'short time', but users are advised to switch to the Substance apps.
Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU
Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5
Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 2
Renderer gets new toon shader, debug shading, memory tracking tools, and updates to V-Ray GPU.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 2 for 3ds Max
New features include OpenVDB, FumeFX and Phoenix FD support, better interoperability with V-Ray.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Download over 200 free photo-scanned leaf textures
Get Wojciech Piwowarczyk's free environment texture packs, each at 4,096 x 4,096px. Commercial use.
Sunday, March 4th, 2018
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11
VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.
Friday, March 17th, 2017
FXhome ships HitFilm 4 Pro
Editing, compositing and effects app gets new 3D rendering, animation options, plus $299 Boris FX titling plugin 3D Objects thrown in free.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
Adobe rolls out Creative Cloud 2015 updates
Photoshop CC 2015 adds new normal mapping and poly reduction options, smart noise and film grain.
Thursday, June 18th, 2015