Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1

Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.

Thursday, April 9th, 2020

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019

Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.

Sunday, January 12th, 2020

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.3

Big update to the 3D painting app adds support for Photoshop .abr brushes, automatic UV unwrapping.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2019

The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists

Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.

Friday, November 29th, 2019

Sneak peek: Adobe's Project Sweet Talk and Go Figure

New AI-based tools automatically animate 2D characters to match source audio or video footage.

Friday, November 8th, 2019

Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2019.1

Next-gen material authoring tool now out of beta. First official release adds new delighter filter.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0

Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

Adobe ships Dimension 3.0

Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.

Monday, November 4th, 2019

Adobe ships After Effects 17.0

Compositing software gets more fluid playback of cached previews, faster Content-Aware fill, better EXR import, Cryptomatte support.

Monday, November 4th, 2019

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21

Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

Adobe ships Substance Designer 2019.2

Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps.

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Adobe releases Substance in Maya 2.0

'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting.

Friday, July 19th, 2019