Chaos backs the Blender Development Fund
Renderer developer's €30,000/year contribution to the open-source 3D app follows the release of the new official edition of V-Ray for Blender.
Friday, July 11th, 2025
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KeyShot adds KeyShot Studio AI to KeyShot Studio 2025.2
New generative AI features in the renderer and visualization app run on your local machine, but may create copyright-infringing results.
Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Tutorial: Introduction to Houdini - Grains
Discover how to simulate sand and other granular materials in Houdini with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginner tutorial.
Friday, July 4th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Blender
Long-awaited new edition of V-Ray integrates the production renderer natively in Blender. Check out its features, its limitations, and its price.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Check out unusual open-source vector design tool Graphite
Promising free app combines the ease of layer-based workflows with the power of a node graph. More bitmap editing tools planned, too.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
How North of Now created holo doubles for Kaytranada's 'Witchy'
Discover how the video for the Grammy-nominated track was created with KeenTools' FaceBuilder and FaceTracker for Nuke.
Monday, June 30th, 2025
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2025 and 3DCoatTextura 2025
Check out the new features in the 3D sculpting and retopology software, and its cut-down edition for texturing work.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
Create outline renders in Blender with the free Octane Edge Tools
Create customisable anime-style outline renders in Blender and OctaneRender using Lino Grandi's neat new free add-on.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
Tutorial: Creating a Sci-Fi Sequence using Houdini Solaris
Master lighting and layout workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive guide to Houdini's Solaris toolset.
Saturday, June 21st, 2025
Open 3D Foundation releases O3DE 25.05
Check out the changes to the open-source game engine, including updates to multi-GPU rendering, cinematics editing and XR workflow.
Friday, June 20th, 2025
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.5
Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including support for rendering USDZ files, and support for point clouds in Blender.
Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.3 with new liquid simulation system
3D animation and motion graphics app gets liquid simulation toolset, plus support for UDIMs and texel density. See all the new features.
Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Chaos releases Corona 13 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Architectural renderer gets new toon shading system, support for animation in Vantage Live Link, and integration with Chaos AI Enhancer.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025