Check out neat new 3ds Max cloth plugin Clothify Pro

New add-on lets you pull surfaces into cloth-like folds, then deform them with Max's other modifiers.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022

Iterative update to the 3D software updates key modelling tools like Smart Extrude, and the Bake to Texture system for games work.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021

Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2

Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.

Friday, March 12th, 2021

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1

Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

Hair Cards Tool for Max creates strip-based hair for games

Check out Gameloft character artist Mihail Lupu's neat new 3ds Max tool for creating fast-rendering hair.

Friday, February 19th, 2021

Kinematic Lab releases PhysX Painter 2.0 for 3ds Max

Amazing plugin for painting objects into scenes under gravity also now lets you Attract or Explode them.

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

The 20 most popular Gnomon Workshop tutorials of 2020

Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D

Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.

Friday, January 22nd, 2021

Discover 10 key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.2

Read our pick of the new features in the game engine, from ray traced reflections to real-time compositing.

Monday, December 21st, 2020

Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.1 VS and RS

UV unwrapping tools' neat new TopoCopy system is 'first unique feature in UV mapping in years'.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

Autodesk ships Maya 2020.4 and Maya LT 2020.4

Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, including a big update to its Bifrost toolset.

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2021.3

Update to the 3D software adds new retopology tools and support for bloom effects in the viewport.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

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