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Royalty-free open-source codec for professional video production is the VFX industry standards body's latest hosted project.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.

Thursday, January 19th, 2023

Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

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

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

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