Eye candy: Maxon's 2018 Cinema 4D showreel

New C4D work from Blade Runner 2049 to medical animation, via some beautifully bizarre CG shorts.

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20

Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

Download free assets from Unity's Book of the Dead demo

Get 2.4GB of trees, grass, rocks and ground materials for free, including Megascans 3D scans.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.

Thursday, June 14th, 2018

What smart studios look for when buying CG hardware

Advertorial: Nice Shoes CTO Robert Keske reveals what governs the award-winning studio's choice of new technology.

Monday, April 9th, 2018

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Master Environment Creation for VR Using Photogrammetry

Create a detailed, production-ready immersive environment inside Unity with Gnomon's step-by-step guide.

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Eye candy: Unreal Engine and Unity's GDC 2018 sizzle reels

Action-packed new reels reveal the amazing breadth of work now being created in game engines.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Videos: Epic Games' Unreal new digital human demos

Watch Epic's eye-popping real-time demos, then discover the facial capture tech that powers them.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Videos: See Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing in action

Updated: neat Star Wars short shows the real-time effects possible in UE4 with this new extension to DX12.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

Epic Games launches Unreal Studio in free open beta

New real-time visualisation product gets 3ds Max scenes or CAD data into Unreal Engine for rendering.

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018

Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D moves into free beta

Beta 1 release adds support for interactive rendering, the Corona Image Editor, and material layering.

Monday, February 5th, 2018

See the 10 hottest new features due in Blender in 2018

Read the Blender Foundation's pick of the top dev projects, from the Eevee PBR viewport renderer to 'Animation 2020'.

Thursday, January 4th, 2018