Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2
3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
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Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021
See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
Arnold and V-Ray win Engineering Emmy Awards
Renderers win primetime Emmy Awards alongside crowd simulation tools Massive and Golaem Crowd.
Monday, October 11th, 2021
Eye candy: Chaos's 2021 V-Ray showreel
See the best VFX and animation work created with V-Ray, plus tech breakdowns of the key projects.
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Master grooming CG hair with Ornatrix for Maya
Create facial hair for an animatable 3D character with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
Saturday, September 11th, 2021
AMD unveils Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600 GPUs
New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
Multiverse | USD 6.7 ships
Check out the new features in J Cube's USD-native Maya layout, look dev and lighting toolset. Freelancers can use it for free.
Monday, June 7th, 2021
Nvidia launches GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti
See how the new 'rendering powerhouses' stack up in CG apps like Arnold, Blender and V-Ray.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
Get the free V-Ray glTF viewer
Visualise models in the popular real-time 3D file format using the V-Ray renderer with Chaos's new set of open-source Python scripts.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4
Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0
Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Motiva ships Layama 1.5
Datasmith creator's unusual tool for turning 3ds Max, Blender and UE4 scenes into 'pseudo VR' gets new option to add interactive hotspots.
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021