Master Character Creation for Production
Improve your skills in designing, sculpting and texturing 3D characters with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Monday, May 19th, 2025
rendering
Chaos adds Chaos Scans to Cosmos for V-Ray 7 Update 1
V-Ray 7.1 update makes 3,000+ scanned real-world materials accessible via the Cosmos browser, available to all V-Ray subscribers.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
iRender - the ultimate render farm for the Redshift renderer
[Sponsored] Online render farm iRender explains why its flexible solutions unlock the full potential of GPU rendering with Redshift.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Free tool: Mesh Cleaner 2 for Blender
VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click. Check out the new features in version 2.0.
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Review: HP Z4 Rack G5 rackmount workstation
How does HP's rackable graphics workstation compare to a desktop system in real-world rendering and CG tests? Jason Lewis finds out.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
SPECviewperf 15 adds Blender and UE5 tests to the benchmark
New version of the veteran graphics benchmark for testing workstations reflects recent changes to CG software and industry pipelines.
Monday, May 5th, 2025
Lumion releases Lumion 2025.0
Significant update to the real-time visualization software adds AI render upscaling, ray traced water and fog, and new pricing and licensing.
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Lumion releases Lumion View for SketchUp
New real-time design exploration and visualization plugin lets users generate ray traced 4K renders inside the 3D modeling software.
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 2.8
Real-time renderer gets support for light linking, lens effects, and Shader Execution Reordering on NVIDIA GPUs. See all the new features.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Unity 6.1: discover 5 key features for CG artists
See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.
Friday, April 25th, 2025
Chaos releases Corona 12 Update 2 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5
Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.
Friday, April 18th, 2025