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Chaos has released Cosmos Update 11, adding over 650 new assets including people models, vegetation, materials, furniture, accessories, and HDRI panoramas. (more...)

Autodesk has announced Maya 2025.1 including many improvements across modelling, animation, rendering, and other areas. (more...)

Pureref, a popular tool among artists and designers for organizing and viewing reference images, has released version 2.0. This major update introduces a refreshed user interface,, a new simple drawing tool, and support for animated GIFs, complete with playback controls for stepping through individual frames. (more...)

Autodesk has announced 3ds Max 2025.1, just a few months after the initial Max 2025 release. (more...)

Alexey Vanzhula has announced the lates version of Soft Boolean for Houdini. (more...)

Adobe has announced the May 2024 release of Photoshop. (more...)

Autodesk has announced the acquisition of Wonder Dynamics, the company behind Wonder Studio, a cloud-based 3D animation and visual effects platform that uses AI to replace actors in a scene with 3D characters. (more...)

Chaos has announced the release of Vantage 2.4, introducing support for importing and creating V-Ray Decal, along with the ability to nest V-Ray scenes within other V-Ray scenes. Materials now include a "Thin walled" option in V-Ray material. The update also adds support for UDIM textures, enhancing texture workflows. (more...)

FXGuide has published an article discussing the production process used by Shy Kids for Air Head one of the more striking examples used by OpenAI to promote SORA. In the article, Patrick Cederberg, responsible for post-production, emphasized that while SORA is a powerful tool, in it's current state it is far from replacing the VFX department entirely. (more...)

Matt Clark has announced that Wrapit is now available for free to all users. First introduced in 2009 Wrapit is a respected retopology tool for 3ds Max. Over the years though, Max has gained several updates, including features such as polydraw, auto retopology tools, and the recent conform modifier, that make the plugin less essential.Nonetheless Wrapit maintains a number of active users and continues to be a valuable addition to 3ds Max artist's toolkits. (more...)