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RenderMan 24.1

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and VFX comes with four free stock explosion and tornado effects.

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy open-source tools convert the aiStandardSurface shader to Blender's Principled BSDF.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Get CropCraft Studios' Modular Bakery Shop pack of 3D assets for creating a shop and cafe for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Check out the new features in the material authoring software, including updates to the Spline tools and node graph.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

New beta feature lets multiple artists collaborate on the same Photoshop file simultaneously, speeding up asset reviews.

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025