Polygonflow releases Dash 1.9
Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
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How Vine FX created a parasitic underwater forest for The Rig
Discover how the VFX studio used procedural growth simulation to create the environment for Amazon Prime Video's supernatural thriller.
Friday, January 31st, 2025
Pixar releases RenderMan 26.3
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.1 in beta
Scene layout and rendering app gets new generative AI features, including a new text-to-3D system for creating background models.
Saturday, December 14th, 2024
Tutorial: Cinematic Lighting Shot Production
Master professional CG lighting workflows in Maya, Arnold, Katana and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
Foundry releases Flix 7.1
Heavyweight story development tool with integrations to Photoshop and Maya can now also be used in a standard web browser.
Friday, September 6th, 2024
SideFX releases Houdini 20.5: check out its five key features
Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
Golaem releases crowd animation tool Golaem 9
Major update to the Maya crowds tool adds new workflows for creating shots without simulation, and a new UE5-style ML Deformer.
Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Tutorial: Creating Cinematics in Unreal Engine 5
Master current professional real-time workflows with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly guide to using UE5 in production.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.0.2
Shot layout and rendering app gets Firefly AI-based Generative Background system and improved real-time rendering.
Friday, May 24th, 2024
Chaos unveils Project Eclipse
New product for 'rapid arch viz storytelling' will work with V-Ray and Enscape, and is due later this year. Here's what we know about it so far.
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
Baga Grove lets you 'draw' plants into your Blender scenes
Neat plugin lets users draw outlines in the viewport and have them filled automatically with naturally randomized sets of 3D plants.
Monday, February 19th, 2024
PhyX Drag brings physics-based object placement to Blender
New $10 add-on brings simple Houdini-style physics-based scene layout workflows to the open-source 3D software.
Thursday, December 28th, 2023