Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 3

Inexpensive texture map creation tool gets new baking options, image filters, support for 32-bit workflow.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2015

Gnomon ships Introduction to Substance Painter

Master the next-gen texturing tool with a four-hour video guide from Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5

Now shipping: leading game engine gets real-time GI, physically based shading, new audio-editing tools.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

Download organic art software Substance for free

Get Stephane Marty's intuitive 3D fractal and organic art tool and the Emulsion physically based renderer.

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

Get The Comprehensive PBR Guide for free

Updated: Master physically based rendering with Allegorithmic's concise PDF guide. Part 2 out now.

Friday, January 30th, 2015

The Foundry releases Modo Indie and Marie Indie

Licensed for commercial work, aimed at indie games artists, and priced at just $300 and $150 a pop.

Friday, December 12th, 2014

Video Copilot releases Element 3D V2

Now shipping: update to After Effects 3D rendering plugin adds PBR, SSS, raytraced shadows, and more.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6

Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Quixel releases Quixel Suite

Updated: new versions of NDO and DDO now officially out of beta. New batch options and 16K support too.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Substance tools to get Final Fantasy XV render tech

Updated: Silicon Studio's Yebis 2 middleware shipping in Substance Designer 4.3. See a cool demo video.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2014

The Foundry ships Mari 2.6

Good update for games artists adds physically correct shading, layered GLSL shaders, in-viewport IBL.

Friday, April 4th, 2014

Autodesk announces its 2015 product releases

We assess the feature lists of the upcoming Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage 2015.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2014

Mixamo releases Fuse 'universal character creator'

Free tool generates custom male and female characters in OBJ format, licensed for commercial use.

Friday, January 24th, 2014