Chaos Group has announced the latest version of the V-Ray 5 beta. New features and improvements in beta 2 include: (more...)

Dimension 5 has announced a new version of D5 Render, marking the commercial release of its recently announced realtime engine that combines ray-tracing and rasterisation techniques. (more...)

Chaos Group has announced an update to Chaos Cloud, its online render farm service. (more...)

Jake Denham has published several tips for and videos for rendering interiors on his blog including how to speed up workflows using scripts, adding fur to soften up scenes, chamfering using maps, using depth of field and more. Read it on luxuryvisuals.com

Chaos Group has published two detailed posts explaining how to get the most from the latest version of Phoenix FD. Part 1 covers Active Bodies, Standalone Previewer and the Particle Tuner while Part 2 examines the Voxel Tuner, TexUVW and thinkingParticles integration.

SideFX recently held its Houdini HIVE Worldwide event online featuring over 35 presentations and training sessions, many of which included downloadable files so attendees could follow along. All the presentations and assets are now available to watch on-demand by visiting the .

Pulze has released a new version of its scene manager for 3ds Max. New features include new modules to allow the user to control objects, atmospheres, and render elements per setup plus the ability to extend Scene Manager by executing scripts pre-setup, post-setup, pre-render and post-render.  (more...)

IDV has released a new reel of games work created with help from Speedtree. Watch it on YouTube.