Technicolor Group begins to shut down operations
Financial problems of the owner of Mikros Animation and VFX Oscar-winners MPC and The Mill threaten thousands of artists' jobs worldwide.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
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Download four free VDB clouds from VFX Assets
Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
Artlist discontinues the FXhome apps: HitFilm and Imerge dead
Video editing, compositing and VFX app and still image editor had over 6 million users prior to buyout and switch to subscription pricing.
Monday, February 24th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.0
Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1
Sizeable update to the real-time visualization app adds volumetric clouds, Virtual Shadow Maps and automatic LOD generation.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
Is AI replacing render farms?
[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
Maxon releases Red Giant 2025.3 and Universe 2025.2
Check out the new features in the suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins and the online library of effects and transitions.
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.3
Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 2.7
Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets OCIO color management, DLSS 4, and new lens distortion system.
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Adobe launches the Firefly Video Model in public beta
New generative AI model let users create video, animation and even stock FX clips from text prompts and images. Read our FAQs about it.
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Free tools: Render Manager and Light Editor for Blender
VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
See CG benchmarks for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.
Friday, February 7th, 2025
Chaos releases Beta 2 of the new V-Ray for Blender
Updated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available
Friday, February 7th, 2025