LightWave Digital previews LightWave 2025
Check out the new features due in the 3D software, including the RIPD real-time preview, a new cel shader, and updates to character rigging.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
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See five great VFX breakdowns from the 2025 V-Ray showreel
See breakdowns of five key movies, TV series, cinematics and animated shorts created in V-Ray from Chaos's latest showreel.
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
Adobe launches unmetered access to Substance 3D Assets
Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Houdini
Check out the new features in the renderer, including a new Houdini-specific volume shader and better integration with Solaris.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Maya
Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0
Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.
Monday, January 27th, 2025
Tutorial: Creating Runtime Cinematics in Unreal Engine 5
Master key workflows for integrating character animation into interactive gameplay in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
After Effects' latest beta lets you preview HDR comps
Check out the latest beta features in the compositing and motion graphics app, including the option to preview HLG and PQ video.
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
New version of iOS and Android scanning app Kiri Engine
Kiri Engine 3.13 improves the quality of 3D Gaussian Splatting in the app, sharpening scans and reducing 3DGS file sizes 'approximately 50%'.
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
RE:Vision Effects launches Twixtor Standalone
GPU-accelerated, AI-powered video retiming tool can now be used without a host app, for under half the price of a regular plugin license.
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Left Angle releases Autograph 2025
Big update to the compositing and motion design app adds a DaVinci Resolve Live Link, an After Effects converter - and a new free edition.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Check out this free 2D Rim Light Tool for Nuke
Compositing Academy's handy add-on creates fake rim lighting on 2D images for title sequences and motion graphics using only an alpha.
Monday, January 20th, 2025
Create motion graphics in Nuke with the new Screen FX plugin
Compositing Academy's affordable add-on provides over 50 custom nodes for creating common screen graphics effects and transitions.
Friday, January 17th, 2025