Godot 3.4 ships

Open-source game engine gets better tonemapping, new UI theme editor, glTF export for editing scenes in DCC apps like Blender.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021

Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation

Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.

Monday, August 2nd, 2021

Linux Foundation launches the Open 3D Foundation

Founder members of new body to promote open-source games tech include Adobe, AWS and Intel.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2021

Godot 3.3 ships

Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

Download 37 free 3D models from 3D Model Haven

Get free props and environment models in FBX and Blender format with PBR textures. CC0 licence.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant

The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Manuel Bastioni to discontinue Manuel Bastioni Lab

Fans offer support for open-source character creation tool in wake of dev's decision to stop further work.

Monday, November 12th, 2018

Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Foundry unveils Athera, its new cloud-based VFX platform

Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Download 90+ free PBR textures from CC0 Textures

Get free tileable metal, concrete, wood and fabric textures at up to 8K resolution. Commercial use.

Sunday, April 8th, 2018

Foundry unveils Elara

New cloud-based service will provide a complete VFX pipeline in a web browser, including software, storage, rendering and analytics.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Maxon picks AMD's Radeon ProRender for Cinema 4D

OpenCL-based GPU render engine will be integrated into Cinema 4D over the next few release cycles.

Monday, October 31st, 2016