Check out promising browser-based renderer Colorful
New tool creates photorealistic visualisations in your web browser. You can try the public beta for free.
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
HDRI
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4.2
Update makes new Omniverse connection plugin available to all users of the lighting design tool.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Sneak peek: Content-Aware Fill in Substance 3D Sampler
Neat Photoshop-style feature automatically removes unwanted details from all channels of a material at once.
Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Download 2,600 free 2K sky images from MattePaint
Get 2,000 x 1,000px sky images to use in matte painting or as render backplates. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1
Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
ArmorPaint 0.8 ships
Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Discover how to create a lighting template in Katana
Get started with the lighting and look dev software with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed introductory tutorial.
Saturday, September 4th, 2021
Master character look dev in Maya and Arnold
Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Pilgway ships 3DCoatTextura
New sub-€100 3D texturing app can be used to paint or bake 16k PBR texture maps for use in other DCC software or game engines.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Check out MattePaint 4.0
Online library of source images for matte painters now available as 16-bit DNG RAW and 32-bit EXR files, along with 360-degree HDRI skies.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.0
Material authoring app formerly known as Substance Alchemist also now creates lighting set-ups.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
D5 Render 1.9 ships
Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.
Friday, May 28th, 2021