The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
Maxwell
Tech focus: Modo's new mPath render engine
Modo's new path tracer promises faster, more flexible renders than the default CPU engine. Discover how it works.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance in Maya 2.0
'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting.
Friday, July 19th, 2019
Next Limit ships RealFlow 10.5
Standalone edition of the fluid simulation software gets a new Macro daemon to mimic the look of high-speed liquid photography.
Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation
Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Next Limit launches RoomBox
New architectural visualisation platform converts 2D AutoCAD and Revit floorplans into complete 3D environments for final rendering.
Saturday, April 27th, 2019
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4
Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation
Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.
Monday, August 6th, 2018
Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists
Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
Next Limit releases Maxwell 4.1
Physically based renderer gets new image-denoising system, support for MERL and AxF materials, plus new readymade lighting assets.
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5.4
Real-time lighting design tool adds new ways to position area lights or virtual lights within HDRI maps.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
Dassault Systèmes acquires Next Limit Dynamics
CAD firm buys division of Next Limit behind its XFlow fluid dynamics software. RealFlow unaffected.
Monday, December 12th, 2016