Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists

Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5

Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

Check out fast 3ds Max cloth simulation plugin Dynamo

Deform Dynamics' real-time cloth simulation tool performs '10-100x faster' than Max's Cloth modifier.

Friday, October 9th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.90

Latest update to the open-source 3D app brings major changes to sculpting, rendering and simulation.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Otoy launches RNDR

Innovative 'distributed GPU render network' lets OctaneRender users earn credits by making their PCs available to others for rendering.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

Golaem ships Golaem 7.3

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Unity 2019.3 ships

Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

StemCell converts 3ds Max, Maya files to UE4 and Unity

Updated: TurboSquid tech converts files in the native format of one 3D app to that of another. Now also exports USDZ files.

Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2020

Updated: Sapphire 2020 ships. Release adds OpenColorIO support, new lens whacking effect.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

See the new ZBrush features from ZBrush Summit 2019

See all the new features unveiled by Pixologic, from history-aware sculpting to Polypaint updates.

Saturday, September 28th, 2019

Andrei Sarmadac and Kun Shi release Rocket 3F 1.8

Streamlined modeling software gets new portable edition that can be run from a flash drive.

Friday, September 20th, 2019

Sneak peek: Corona's neat new 'one click' caustics system

Renderer's fast, intuitive new system aims to make caustics a 'mainstream effect' in production.

Friday, May 17th, 2019