Gnomon ships Creating a Sci-Fi Alleyway
Create immersive production-ready scenes with Devon Fay's six-hour guide to CG environment work.
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
V-Ray
Download Chaos Group's free Guide to VR
Free 22-page ebook sets out best practices for converting rendered content into virtual reality scenes.
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 3.0 for 3ds Max
Updated: New extension release gives the multiphysics plugin support for variable viscosity fluids and a new foam solver.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
DGDM ships SLiB | Browser and SLiB | Browser Pro 1.0
Maya plugins for browsing shaders get new search and favourites options. Base edition is still free.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
The Foundry ships Mari 3
Updated, now shipping: Texturing app gets OpenSubdiv support; Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and UE4 shaders; native Modo integration.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Quixel ships Quixel Suite 2.0
Updated, now shipping: Games texturing toolkit gets powerful 3D painting and map baking options. See the new features in action here.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 CG discounts
We round up 50 seasonal deals on CG tools, including Modo, Corona, LightWave, Painter and Poser Pro.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Review: HP ZBook 17 G2 mobile workstation
Jason Lewis puts HP's top-of-the-range pro mobile system through a battery of real-world tests.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
Download innoBright's free tech preview of Altus 1.0
Intriguing new tool denoises Arnold, V-Ray, Corona and Redshift renders, generating clean images 2-9x faster.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
Download DGDM's free Maya SLiB | Browser plugin
Updated: Handy add-on offers a simple way to browse shaders. New Pro edition lets you export them, too.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Google relaunches Zync render service in beta
VFX-friendly online service now available on Google Cloud Platform. Sign up to get $800 in free credits.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Substance Painter 1.5 and Substance Designer 5.2 ship
Both Allegorithmic texturing tools get export presets for V-Ray, Arnold, Redshift and Corona; new viewport display options.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Eye candy: the 2015 V-Ray showreel
See nearly four minutes of gorgeous work created using the renderer, from Guardians of the Galaxy to game cinematics.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015