Chaos releases Chaos Vantage 1.8
Check out the new features in the real-time tool for exploring V-Ray scenes, like the new cloud system.
Monday, July 18th, 2022
Cinema 4D
This neat free plugin lets you import OpenVDBs into UE5
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Maxon ships Cinema 4D S26.1
Subscriber-only release updates Cinema 4D's cloth simulation tools and node UI, and adds new HDRIs, textures and Redshift materials.
Thursday, June 30th, 2022
Continuum 2022.5 ships
Update to Boris FX's set of effects plugins for compositing apps adds the option to emit particles from 3D models inside Particle Illusion.
Friday, June 24th, 2022
Download 3,000 free mocap moves from Bandai Namco
Games firm's R&D division releases massive set of mocap data, plus free Blender BVH import script.
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Open Image Denoise now runs on GPU as well as CPU
Open-source render denoiser used in Arnold. Blender and V-Ray now supports AMD, Intel & Nvidia GPUs.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
U-Render releases U-Render 2022.4 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering toolset, SSGI and multi-materials.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
Magic Bullet Suite 16.1 ships
Maxon's colour correction tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro gets initial OCIO support, two new tools for creating light hazes in Looks.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5
Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Chaos Czech ships Corona 8 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Major update to the renderer adds new object scattering, decal and cutaway systems, plus new pricing.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4.2
Update makes new Omniverse connection plugin available to all users of the lighting design tool.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Insydium unveils Taiao
Neat procedural plant generator for Cinema 4D generates animatable 3D trees, grasses and flowers for VFX and motion graphics work.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Apple unveils the M1 Ultra
'Most powerful chip ever built for a personal computer' has a higher GPU compute performance than some Nvidia Ampere RTX cards.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022