Chaos releases Vantage 3.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
visual effects
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Houdini
Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
Leopoly releases Shapelab Max 2026
Check out the new features in the desktop and VR sculpting tool, including a reworked 3D gizmo and an eye-catching Elastic Move tool.
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
QuadSpinner unveils Gaea 3.0
Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Insydium releases Fused 2025.4 with new animation toolset Jidou
Check out the changes to the popular set of Cinema 4D add-ons, also including GPU-accelerated smoke and fire simulation in NeXus.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Esri releases CityEngine 2025.1
Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new workflows for creating more complex forms for buildings.
Monday, December 8th, 2025
Pixar releases RenderMan 27.1
Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Maxon releases Red Giant 2026.1 and 2026.2
Check out the new features in the set of tools for motion graphics and VFX artists, including generation of depth maps from video.
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Tutorial: Cinematic Matte Painting Techniques
Create a portfolio-worthy matte painting in Photoshop, Nuke and Blender with The Gnomon Workshop's new masterclass.
Saturday, December 6th, 2025
Unity 6.3 LTS is out: see 5 key features for games artists
Read our pick of the latest features, from the power to create terrain shaders in the Shader Editor to a big step towards a unified renderer.
Friday, December 5th, 2025
Maxon releases Redshift 2026.2
Check out the changes to the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, including updates to displacement.
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Maxon releases ZBrush 2026.1 and ZBrush for iPad 2026.1
Check out the changes to the digital sculpting software, including a new retopology brush, plus photogrammetry in the iPad edition.
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2026.1
Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and animation software, including new Advanced Distributions for motion graphics.
Thursday, December 4th, 2025