Luxion ships KeyShot 10.2

Rendering and technical animation software gets new automated mesh simplification tool, and updates to the material library.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2021

Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0

Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021

Check out Nvidia's RTXDI and RTXGI GPU ray tracing demos

Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI.

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Omniverse Machinima and Audio2Face to enter beta

Nvidia's apps for remixing game assets and generating facial animation from audio files due in open beta this week.

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

The making of Rebellion's Evil Genius 2 cinematic trailer

Discover how Rebellion's VFX team created the game's colourful trailer using Houdini and Unreal Engine.

Saturday, April 10th, 2021

Autodesk ships Maya 2022

Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021

Maxon acquires forger

Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create

Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.1

Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Basefount releases Animcraft

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 10.0

3D clothing design tool gets new wrinkle-sculpting brush and much more customisable 3D avatars. Now rental-only.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4

Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020