AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender

Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.

Monday, February 17th, 2020

e-on software launches PlantCatalog

PlantFactory creator launches new set of procedural 3D plants for use in DCC apps and game engines.

Thursday, February 13th, 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

Autodesk to raise price of multi-user subscriptions

Cost of multi-user subs to 3ds Max and Maya to go up around 14%; M&E Collection up around 33%.

Thursday, January 23rd, 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

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0

Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.

Thursday, December 12th, 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

Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs

Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.

Friday, October 11th, 2019

WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018.3

Big free update to the LightWave modelling toolkit adds new tools for UV mapping NURBS surfaces and for converting quads to NURBS.

Wednesday, October 9th, 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

Pixar releases Opensubdiv 3.4

Open-source subdivision library used in many DCC tools now supports same feature set for Loop and Catmull-Clark subdivision.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

Epic Games buys Twinmotion

Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Chaos Group acquires V-RayforC4D from LAUBlab

Buyout expected to speed up development of C4D edition of the renderer, but makes it rental-only.

Monday, November 5th, 2018