Chaos Group acquires V-RayforC4D from LAUBlab
Buyout expected to speed up development of C4D edition of the renderer, but makes it rental-only.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
V-Ray
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya
Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Discover how pioneering CG short Construct was created
Director Kevin Margo explores Construct's advances in real-time ray tracing at a free event at Gnomon next week.
Monday, October 22nd, 2018
Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.0
Designer-friendly 3D software gets support for layered decals, FBX and STL import, interactive web export for design reviews and AR.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini 17
Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation
Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
Chaos Group releases Beta 3 of V-Ray Next for Maya
Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising.
Monday, September 17th, 2018
Eye candy: Chaos Group's 2018 V-Ray showreel
See amazing VFX and cinematics rendered in V-Ray, from Beyond Good & Evil 2 to Justice League.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
Nvidia open-sources MDL
SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system
'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
Try V-Ray Cloud for free
Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for Maya
Update improves the IPR and GPU rendering architectures, extends the new toon and hair shaders.
Saturday, August 11th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 2.0
Free plugin for editing Substance materials in 3ds Max now supports animation and network rendering.
Friday, August 10th, 2018