Chaos releases V-Ray 7.1 for Blender
First big update to the new edition of V-Ray for Blender users adds support for Geometry Nodes and a Cycles-to-V-Ray material converter.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
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Xencelabs launches the Pen Display 24+
Check out the price and key specs for the 'industry first' pen display with Calman Ready built in for color calibration for high-end CG work.
Monday, August 25th, 2025
RE:Vision Effects releases video and animation upscaler REZUp 2
Check out the new machine learning models in the pro upscaling plugin for compositing and video editing applications.
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
AMD releases FidelityFX SDK 2.0 and UE5 plugin with FSR 4 support
SDK for developers looking to integrate FidelityFX tech into their apps now includes latest version of the AI image upscaling system.
Thursday, August 21st, 2025
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2025.1
Clothing design tool gets the option to create garment parts by drawing onto a 3D avatar, and an AI Pose Generator. See the other changes.
Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Adobe releases Photoshop 26.10
Minor update to the image-editing and digital painting software adds a new Star tool for drawing regular star polygons on the canvas.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 7.0 for 3ds Max
Smoke, fire and effects plugin gets GPU-accelerated ocean simulation system, with support for foam, spray and floating objects.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
ZibraVDB for Houdini and UE5 is now free to indie artists
Indie users can now use the real-time effects tech to compress and play back an unlimited number of OpenVDB sequences for free.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Sneak peek: Axiom 4 for Houdini
Check out the changes due in the next major update to the popular GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver for games and VFX.
Monday, August 18th, 2025
Marmoset releases Toolbag 5.02
Check out the new features in the real-time rendering and look dev tool, from dedicated decal layers to low-to-low-poly texture baking.
Sunday, August 17th, 2025
Adobe launches free asset review tool Substance 3D Reviewer
New app lets users carry out shared online design reviews of 3D models, either in a standard web browser, or in room-scale VR.
Sunday, August 17th, 2025
MatPlus puts Substance 3D-style texture painting inside Blender
Promising hard-surface-focused add-on implements Substance 3D Painter-style layer-based texture painting inside Blender.
Friday, August 15th, 2025
UVPackmaster 3.4 for Blender adds one-click UV repacking
Check out the latest features in the popular UV packing plugin, including one-click Auto Repacking, and support for texel density.
Thursday, August 14th, 2025