Dabarti Capture extracts surface data from photos

Neat new tool creates high-quality normal, albedo and depth maps from photos of real objects. The Lite edition is free.

Monday, May 22nd, 2017

PSOFT ships Pencil+ 4

Popular 3ds Max cel-shading plugin gets support for material transparency; now works with XRefs and the Nitrous viewport.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

Sketchfab's models of the month: April 2017

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from photorealistic environments to Simpsons fan art.

Monday, May 1st, 2017

Master Environment Creation for Film and Cinematics

New Gnomon tutorial reveals how to create a photorealistic 3D environment from start to finish.

Sunday, April 2nd, 2017

Sneak peek: Blender's new Eevee real-time render engine

Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.

Friday, March 24th, 2017

NewTek previews LightWave Next

Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.

Thursday, March 16th, 2017

Artomatix unveils style transfer service for games artists

Cool AI tech automatically upreses PS2-era textures to today's games, or converts scanned textures to stylised ones.

Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2017 product roadmap

Features to include new cinematics toolsets, a scriptable rendering pipeline, and a new C# job system.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

Abvent releases Artlantis 6.5

Architectural renderer gets new physical sky, distributed render manager, export to TwinMotion.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2017

V-Ray and Arnold creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Pioneers of facial motion capture and digital cinematography also win technology world 'Oscars'.

Friday, January 6th, 2017

The 10 best visual effects breakdowns of 2016

Watch our pick of the best movie, TV and commercials breakdown videos created in the past year.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

Get Allan McKay's new free 18-hour VFX training course

Create a complete reverse-gravity destruction FX shot in 3ds Max and Nuke. Includes source footage and project files.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

Download CGTrader's 5 best free 3D models: Fall 2016

Get the best free models from the top online marketplace, from VR glasses to architectural interiors.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2016