Adobe and Moleskine launch new Paper Tablet for pro artists
Creative Cloud Connected 'smart notebook' can send pen-on-paper sketches to Illustrator as editable vector strokes.
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Free Resources
Get 380 free PBR texture sets from cgbookcase.com
Download texture maps of natural and man-made materials at up to 4K resolution under a CC0 licence.
Sunday, March 24th, 2019
Master SynthEyes tracking for production
Deadpool artist Kevin Bolivar's new Gnomon tutorial demystifies object and camera tracking for VFX work.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Check out Chaos, UE4's new 'Hollywood physics' system
Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.
Thursday, March 21st, 2019
World Machine 3025 'Alpine Lakes' ships
Terrain-generation tool can now automatically create rivers and lakes according to rainfall and surface flow.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019
Allegorithmic releases open beta of Substance Alchemist
Eagerly anticipated next-gen material creation tool now in free beta for Allegorithmic subscribers.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019
The Heretic demo showcases realistic digital humans in Unity
New tech demo is a 'first attempt' at rendering photorealistic real-time characters in the game engine.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU
Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.18
Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo
The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Wysilab introduces perpetual licences for Instant Terra
Promising landscape-generation tool now costs $149 for 8K terrain export, or $199 for unlimited res.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019