LuxCoreRender and BlendLuxCore 2.10 have been released
Development of the open-source CPU/GPU renderer and its Blender plugin now 'back on track' after three years. See what's new.
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
visual effects
Maxon discontinues ZBrushCore and ZBrushCoreMini
Sales and downloads of the cut-down editions of ZBrush to end on 30 May 2025, but a new 'freemium' desktop version is 'on its way'.
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
Master Character Creation for Production
Improve your skills in designing, sculpting and texturing 3D characters with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Monday, May 19th, 2025
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2025.2
Check out the changes to the GPU renderer, including support for OIDN denoising on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Apple Silicon processors.
Saturday, May 17th, 2025
Cebas releases thinkingParticles 7.4 for 3ds Max
Check out the latest features in the particle and physics plugin, including the new Explosion Tool and 160+ new scripting functions.
Friday, May 16th, 2025
Movella releases mocap software Xsens Animate 2025
Software for processing data from inertial mocap systems gets separate new anatomy models for male and female actors.
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
Chaos adds Chaos Scans to Cosmos for V-Ray 7 Update 1
V-Ray 7.1 update makes 3,000+ scanned real-world materials accessible via the Cosmos browser, available to all V-Ray subscribers.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
iRender - the ultimate render farm for the Redshift renderer
[Sponsored] Online render farm iRender explains why its flexible solutions unlock the full potential of GPU rendering with Redshift.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Been laid off? JangaFX is giving you its tools free for six months
Real-time tools developer is offering temporary licenses of EmberGen, LiquiGen and GeoGen to games and VFX artists who are between jobs.
Friday, May 9th, 2025
Free tool: Mesh Cleaner 2 for Blender
VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click. Check out the new features in version 2.0.
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Sébastien Deguy launches puppetry firm Sans Strings Studio
Substance 3D pioneer's new venture after leaving Adobe is a real-time digital puppeteering firm creating gaming and animation content.
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Review: HP Z4 Rack G5 rackmount workstation
How does HP's rackable graphics workstation compare to a desktop system in real-world rendering and CG tests? Jason Lewis finds out.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
SPECviewperf 15 adds Blender and UE5 tests to the benchmark
New version of the veteran graphics benchmark for testing workstations reflects recent changes to CG software and industry pipelines.
Monday, May 5th, 2025