Discover how to create a detailed exterior scene in Maya

Master core workflows with Digital Domain look dev lead Adrien Vallecilla's new Gnomon tutorial.

Sunday, May 17th, 2020

Eye candy: the 2020 Godot Engine games reels

See the range of titles created with the open-source game engine in these two colourful new showreels.

Monday, April 27th, 2020

Get Guillermo Leal's new free ivy generator for 3ds Max

Generate photorealistic ivy for architectural scenes with this neat new tool for 3ds Max 2018 and up.

Monday, April 20th, 2020

Ziva Dynamics makes Ziva VFX Academic licences free

Powerful Maya soft tissue simulation plugin now available free to students and educators.

Wednesday, April 8th, 2020

See the new features due in Megascans and Quixel Mixer

Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

Get finalRender for free

New free edition of the 3ds Max production renderer lacks hybrid CPU/GPU and network rendering, but can be used commercially.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Epic Games acquires facial mocap firm Cubic Motion

Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos.

Friday, March 13th, 2020

Watch The Heretic, Unity's beautiful new CG short

See the latest Unity demo short, showcasing advances in real-time shading for hair, eyes and cloth.

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

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.

Sunday, December 15th, 2019

Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free

Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Eye candy: SideFX's 2019 Houdini customer reel

Check out the best new movies, ads and cinematics created using Houdini, then follow our links to the VFX breakdowns.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

RandomControl launches Maverick Studio

Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019