Building Natural Environments Using Gaea & Houdini
Discover how to recreate real-world environments for VFX and game cinematics with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Saturday, March 30th, 2024
V-Ray
Chaos releases Vantage 2.3
Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Blend Material and Multi Matte render element.
Friday, March 29th, 2024
Enscape releases Enscape 4,0
Real-time visualization software gets improvements to GPU ray tracing, new V-Ray Scene Exporter and support for Intel Arc GPUs.
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
New pricing for Unreal Engine, Twinmotion and RealityCapture
Epic Games has announced new subscription-based pricing for its key software products. See who the changes affect, and when they start.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.0
Check out the new features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including a new production-ready Viewport 2.0 hair shader.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Tutorial: Creating a High-Fidelity Hero Building
Discover how to create environment assets for VFX or games cinematics in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Sneak peek: Chaos's new AI technologies
Check out the tech in development at Chaos Next, the firm's new 'AI lab', ranging from PBR material generation to 3D set extension.
Wednesday, February 28th, 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
Is V-Ray for Blender back in active development?
Chaos is working on the integration between its V-Ray renderer and the open-source 3D software 'right now', according to its latest livestream.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 2
Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.
Monday, February 19th, 2024
Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs
Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.
Friday, February 16th, 2024
NVIDIA launches $625 RTX 2000 workstation GPU
New small-form-factor 16GB card is the cheapest Ada Generation pro GPU. See how it performs in CG apps like 3ds Max, Maya and V-Ray.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
tyFlow 1.1 for 3ds Max adds new PRISM fracturing system
Check out the popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on's neat new GPU-accelerated mesh fracturing and Boolean system.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024