Chaos releases Vantage 3.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
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QuadSpinner unveils Gaea 3.0
Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Esri releases CityEngine 2025.1
Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new workflows for creating more complex forms for buildings.
Monday, December 8th, 2025
Pixar releases RenderMan 27.1
Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Maxon releases Redshift 2026.2
Check out the changes to the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, including updates to displacement.
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Black Friday, Cyber Week and New Year deals for CG artists
Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in January include 3DCoat, 3D Scan Store, CGTrader.
Friday, November 28th, 2025
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2025.3
Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including ORBX export to OctaneRender and a new Godot integration plugin.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
Pixar releases RenderMan 27
'Most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight production renderer makes RenderMan XPU ready for final-frame output.
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.4
Check out the changes to the production renderer, including updates to hair shading, bloom effects, and Global Light Sampling.
Thursday, November 13th, 2025
Das Element 2.2 uses AI to sort your 2D and 3D VFX assets
Neat tool turns your 'chaos folder' into an organized asset library. Update adds new media type for MaterialX and Substance materials.
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
Get KitBash3D's $245 Dieselpunk kitbash asset kit for free
Set of over 1,300 detailed 3D assets for kitbashing retrofuturistic cities in Unreal Engine is free on Fab for two weeks. For commercial use.
Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 7.1 for 3ds Max
Update to the popular effects plugin makes it easier to exchange simulation caches with Houdini, Bifrost, EmberGen and LiquiGen.
Monday, October 6th, 2025
Zibra AI unveils ZibraGDS
Promising new tech compresses complex destruction, cloth and liquid simulation caches for real-time rendering inside Unreal Engine.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025