Chaos Group has released V-Ray Next for Rhino. (more...)

Here are the latest entries posted on CGPress' free jobs board. As a service to our readers, our jobs board is free. We will also periodically summarise the latest additions and share them on social media and in the main news feed.   (more...)

Shawn Olson has released an update to Wall Worm Pro, his commercial companion to the free Wall Worm tools. Wall Worm Pro is aimed at artists working with 3DS Max and the Source Engine. Version 4 includes a new installer, an auto updater, a new modifier for randomising elements and  many other features. Find out more in the changelog.

Cebas Visual Technology has released an open beta of finalRender for Maya. Find our more and download the free version for Cebas' website and see a getting started video on Vimeo.

Maxon has announced the latest release of its benchmarking tool Cinebench. R20 updates the render core to match the latest Cinema4D release and uses a more sophisticated scene to keep pace with modern CPUs. Find out more and download the update for free from the Maxon website.

Pixologic has announced the release of ZBrush 2019, a significant update that adds several new features including: (more...)

Solid Angle has released a new update to MaxToArnold that adds some handy features for creating complex scenes. This update adds a new PFlow operator called Arnold Shape that replaces each particle with an instance of a chosen object at render time. As well as geometry, this also makes it possible to instance Arnold Specific primitive like Procedural, Alembic and even lights. This update also adds the ability to export particle systems as native Arnold points primitives. Find out more in the release notes.

Samuel Enslin has posted a trailer for his personal project The Journey of the Water Bear, a CG animated short film that follows the adventures of a microscopic tardigrade.  The trailer is released as a teaser with the intention of launching a crowdfunding campaign for full production. Watch it on YouTube and read more about the project on the film's website.