Try out GPU-accelerated GI in mental ray
Discover how to unlock the new engine built into 3ds Max and Maya 2015 to send Nvidia your feedback.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Eye candy: Auroras
Niles Heckman tells us how he made his labour-of-love FX short, rendered over three years on a single PC.
Monday, July 7th, 2014
Epic Games funds Blender development
Game developer donates €10,000 to Blender dev fund in order to improve FBX export to Unreal Engine 4.
Monday, July 7th, 2014
Imagination retires Caustic Visualizer for Maya
Rendering plugin killed off alongside R2100 and R2500 raytracing cards. Tech survives as SketchUp add-on.
Monday, July 7th, 2014
Eye candy: Gnomon's new Best of Term awards
See great student work from the US CG school, including a rather smug vampire and a bit of cross-dressing.
Friday, July 4th, 2014
RebelHill releases RHiggit! V2 for LightWave
Rig and animate anything from birds and bats to arachnids with Craig Monins' powerful modular toolset.
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
AAA studio releases FurryBall for Cinema 4D
Version 4.8 of GPU-based renderer adds new Cinema 4D plugin alongside Maya, 3ds Max versions.
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
Nevercenter ships Silo 2.3, adds new Linux version
Well-liked subdivision modeler gets first update in over three years, plus new Linux and 64-bit Mac versions.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Download 60 new Xfrog plants for free
Get 10 plants, trees and shrubs in a range of common formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Krita 2.8 brings open-source paint tool to Windows users
Updated: Now with an early build for OS X, too. Back it on Kickstarter to speed up Mac development.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Download 9 free photo cutouts of people
Get artist Krzysztof Czerwiński's collection of alpha-masked people, all licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
Download Ideascale Nodepack for Mari
Get a handy collection of free Mari shaders and procedurals, compiled by Weta Digital's Jens Kafitz.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
The best of last week's CG news in brief
Read our five-minute digest, from Blender 2.71 and GPU support in Fabric Engine to Autodesk buying Shotgun.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014