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10/09/2025

V-Ray 7.2 for SketchUp is out. It's a big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer, adding a new AI Upscaler for upresing renders to 16K, a procedural night sky, and updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting and V-Ray GPU.

See all the other new features: https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/10/chaos-releases-v-ray-7-2-for-sketchup-with-new-ai-upscaler/

10/09/2025

Check out BlueBolt's VFX breakdown of a 1930s London street from historical drama Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Watch the full video on the BlueBolt VFX YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1aFI4jYu2o

10/08/2025

Free resources: RagTarock's Abandoned Cathedral asset pack is free to download on Fab for two weeks. It provides over 210 modular assets for creating 3D cathedrals in Unreal Engine, plus 3D trees and bushes, and is licensed for commercial use.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/10/get-210-modular-assets-to-create-3d-cathedrals-in-unreal-engine/

10/08/2025

Check out Ingenuity Studios' VFX breakdown of its visceral effects from sports-themed horror film Him, combining CG bones, muscles and nerves with thermal footage captured with a Flir T1020 camera

Watch the full video on the Ingenuity Studios website: https://www.ingenuitystudios.com/reels/him

10/08/2025

Check out Outpost's VFX breakdown of its effects for Season 3 of Foundation, including this fiery disintegration sequence

Watch the full video on the Outpost VFX website: https://outpost-vfx.com/en/work/foundation-s3

10/07/2025

Free tool: download CryEngine Community Edition 1.0. The user-created patch for CryEngine 5.7 adds the first new publicly available features to Crytek's free AAA game engine for over three years.

Check out the new features and the public roadmap: https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/10/download-the-free-cryengine-community-edition/

10/07/2025

Free tool: Material Maker 1.4 is out. Check out the new features in the major - and long-awaited - update to the open-source alternative to material authoring apps like Substance 3D Designer and Substance 3D Painter.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/10/material-maker-1-4/

10/07/2025

FumeFX 7.1 for 3ds Max is out. The update makes it easier to exchange simulation caches between the 3ds Max effects plugin and tools like Houdini, Bifrost, EmberGen and LiquiGen.

See all of the new features: https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/10/sitni-sati-releases-fumefx-7-1-for-3ds-max/

10/07/2025

Check out FOLKS' VFX breakdown of sci-fi comedy series Murderbot, including a spot of CG cyborg surgery

Watch the full video on the FOLKS website: https://folksvfx.com/our-work/filmography/murderbot/

10/06/2025

EbSynth 2 can turn video into drawn animation without using generative AI. The browser-based stylization, rotoscoping and retouching tool uses texture synthesis to transfer changes you make to one frame of a video to the rest of the shot.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/10/ebsynth-2-can-turn-video-into-animation-without-using-ai/

10/06/2025

Check out beloFX's breakdown of its invisible effects from Season 3 of HBO historical drama The Gilded Age.

Watch the full video on the beloFX Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/1107180816

10/05/2025

Check out Dupe's VFX breakdown of its invisible effects for Season 2 of Apple TV+ historical drama series The Buccaneers

Watch the full video on the DUPE VFX Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/1121849942

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