NewTek ships LightWave 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Get 150 free mocap moves from Rokoko's Motion Library

Includes 50 new high-impact moves recorded specially by God of War stunt artist Eric Jacobus.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

Glassbox Technologies releases BeeHive

Interesting collaboration tool for virtual production and VR syncs scene editing sessions across Maya, UE4 and Unity.

Saturday, March 14th, 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

Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists

Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.

Friday, November 29th, 2019

Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year

Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

Nukeygara unveils the 2019 Akeytsu product roadmap

Updated: October 2019 release adds support for additive layers to the unconventional animation tool.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019

Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs

Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.

Friday, October 11th, 2019

Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2020 product roadmap

See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Otoy launches new free Prime usage tier for OctaneRender

New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Golaem ships Golaem 7.0

Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Epic Games buys Twinmotion

Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.

Monday, May 13th, 2019