Discover cutting-edge workflows for 360° concept art
Master vital 2D and 3D techniques with new Gnomon tutorial Creating 360° Concept Art for Production.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
V-Ray
Get two free Renderpeople animated characters
Download free animated characters in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and FBX formats. For commercial use.
Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free 7-hour Venom VFX training course
Free video tutorials reveal how to recreate everyone's favourite alien symbiote in 3ds Max and V-Ray. Includes project files.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal
New app converts scenes created in other editions of V-Ray for use in UE4, also baking out V-Ray lights.
Friday, November 9th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21
Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.12 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets support for instancing sims, plus volumetric rendering on the GPU via V-Ray Next for Maya.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 2
Update adds node-based material editor, new skin and hair shaders, automated conversion of C4D and V-Ray materials.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
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
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