Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 1.0

Intuitive new 'virtual photography' app features physics-aware layout tools, Vulkan-based GPU rendering.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Master procedural shading in Houdini and Arnold

Discover how to create realistic shaders for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2021

Check out Introduction to Creature Design

New Gnomon Workshop tutorials set out key workflows for sketching and colouring creature concepts.

Monday, May 3rd, 2021

The Blender Foundation unveils Cycles X

Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

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