Epic Games launches MetaHuman Creator

Hotly tipped next-gen character creator now free in early access, along with 50 sample characters.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021

Nvidia announces pricing and new plugins for Omniverse

Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

Sneak peek: Lumberyard's new Atom renderer

Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.

Friday, April 9th, 2021

Download the new free materials on Substance Source

Get 25 free scan-based procedural materials of natural environments and debris, all in .sbsar format.

Sunday, March 21st, 2021

Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create

Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

Eye candy: Chaos Czech's new Corona Renderer showreel

See beautiful new work rendered in Corona, from photorealistic visualisations to animated shorts.

Monday, February 22nd, 2021

e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.1

Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Creators of Pixar and Disney's hair tech win Academy Awards

Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021

Master advanced Houdini hair grooming techniques

Create production-ready grooms in ILM artist Kristin Farrensteiner's Gnomon Workshop masterclass.

Sunday, January 24th, 2021

Eye candy: the new Unreal Engine next-gen games reel

Check out the gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 and 5 titles due out for PS5 and Xbox Series X in 2021.

Monday, January 4th, 2021

BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser

Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Download the project files for Epic Games' Meerkat demo

Get the rigged 3D characters from Epic's beautiful new Unreal Engine demo free in Maya and UE4 format.

Thursday, December 10th, 2020

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.0 for Blender

Free physically accurate renderer now offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing on new AMD GPUs.

Thursday, November 26th, 2020