Visit Animal, Gnomon's free celebration of wildlife art
Updated: Can't make it to LA this weekend? See talks from top concept artists streamed live online.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
Free Resources
Autodesk releases Meshmixer 2.9
Intuitive app for creating mashups of 3D models gets proper support for UV texture maps, new pivot tools.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
Three great tips for creating better creature concepts
Leading artists from Gnomon's free Animal show give their tips for creating better creature concept art.
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
Andrew Hazelden releases PlayblastVR for Maya
Dover Studios co-founder's previz renderer outputs images in panoramic VR formats, or as 360° YouTube videos.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
FaronStudio releases PixPlant 3
Straightforward general-purpose app tiles source photos into a range of common texture map types.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Otoy releases OctaneVR
Updated: Get a free three-month trial of Otoy's renderer for VR content, plus Blender and Poser plugins.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Get 35 free Photoshop plugins for CG artists
Get Richard Rosenman's handy set of particles, fractal and video effects add-ons, all newly updated to 64-bit.
Monday, April 27th, 2015
Kinematic Lab ships Atom for 3ds Max
Clovis Gay's neat motion graphics plugin creates particle-based effects similar to After Effects' Plexus.
Monday, April 27th, 2015
Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 2.0
Updated, now shipping: Big update to next-gen 2D/3D tool adds new layout, look dev & rendering options.
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
The best new software from NAB 2015
We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel readers: from VFX software to plugins & pipeline apps.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
3Dflow releases 3DF Zephyr Lite
University of Verona spin-off ships new $199 image-based modelling tool with built-in Sketchfab export.
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Visual Studio partners Unity, Unreal, Cocos2d engines
Microsoft's free IDE will co-install with all three game engines, along with bonus add-ons.
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Check out the new features in mental ray 3.13
New GI engine, AO pass, support for deep compositing and UDIM - and updatable separately to your 3D app.
Friday, April 17th, 2015