Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020

New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Otoy reveals OctaneRender 2019 product roadmap

See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

The Heretic demo showcases realistic digital humans in Unity

New tech demo is a 'first attempt' at rendering photorealistic real-time characters in the game engine.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

Check out the new features in ZBrush 2019

Big free update to the sculpting software adds new NPR render system and alpha modelling toolkit.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Master Realistic Dog Grooming for Production with XGen

Image Engine grooming artist Jordan Soler's new Gnomon tutorial provides a complete guide to Maya's fur toolset.

Saturday, January 26th, 2019

Epic Games acquires facial capture specialist 3Lateral

Buyout of Epic's tech partner from its amazing GDC demos to boost work on digital humans in UE4.

Thursday, January 24th, 2019

The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018

Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.

Saturday, January 12th, 2019

Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for Cinema 4D

Popular renderer now officially available for C4D as well as Max, after four years in development.

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 3.6 SP7

Free update to the look dev and rendering system adds support for Disney's principled shader model.

Friday, December 21st, 2018

Download free 3D scans of food from creative crops

Get free scans of bread and vegetables in OBJ, FBX or Cinema 4D format with 8K PBR textures. Commercial use.

Sunday, December 9th, 2018

Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2

Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018

Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0

Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4 for Maya

Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Monday, October 29th, 2018