How Unity created Time Ghost, its beautiful Unity 6 tech demo
Discover how the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6 were used to create the demo, which runs in real time on a GeForce 4090 GPU.
Friday, September 20th, 2024
Houdini
ZibraVDB: real-time volumetric rendering in virtual production
[Sponsored] Discover how Zibra AI aims to revolutionize CGI with its volumetric compression technology for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Maxon releases Redshift 2025
New version of the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya features updates to caustics and non-photorealistic rendering.
Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
OpenFX 1.5 has been released
First update to the open standard for VFX plugins in almost a decade improves color management, and widens CPU and GPU support.
Friday, September 6th, 2024
Theory Accelerated releases Axiom 3.3 for Houdini
Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
Group test: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series and Super Series GPUs
Discover which NVIDIA GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests, including Blender, Maya and UE5.
Friday, August 30th, 2024
OpenUSD now supports Vulkan
Universal Scene Description's HgiVulkan backend is intended to make Vulkan a 'more compelling option' for tools developers.
Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
Call of Duty: Warzone's Caldera map is now a free USD data set
Get an open-source version of the geometry for a real AAA game map as a resource for game art, pipeline testing and tools development.
Thursday, August 8th, 2024
Machina Fractals plugins create 3D fractals in Unreal Engine 5
Machina Fractals: Essence, Machina Fractals: Mecha and new plugin Machina Fractals: Ultima create amazing real-time 3D forms.
Thursday, August 8th, 2024
QuadSpinner releases Gaea 2.0
Check out the new features in this major update to the terrain design tool, and its new integration plugins for Houdini and Unreal Engine.
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB
Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2024.5
Sizeable update to the tracking app extends the new 3D tracking toolset, and adds Alembic export and direct export to After Effects.
Monday, July 29th, 2024
The making of the VFX for Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Discover how Ingenuity Studios created a six-mile CG river and complex smoke and fire simulations for Kevin Costner's epic Western.
Friday, July 26th, 2024