Foundry ships Modo 13.0

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Check out Chaos, UE4's new 'Hollywood physics' system

Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

Review: Nvidia Titan RTX

Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo

The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists

Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.

Friday, December 21st, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 12.2

Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast

See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Crytek ships CryEngine 5.5

Long-awaited update to game engine updates GI system and Sandbox editor; introduces new 5%-of-royalties licensing model.

Monday, September 24th, 2018

New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4

Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

PipelineFX ships Qube! 7

Renderfarm management tool gets fast new Postgres-based backend architecture. Supervisor licences now free to download and use.

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Unity Technologies releases Unity source code on GitHub

But don't get too excited: it's for reference only, not modification, and it's the C# source, not the C++.

Thursday, March 29th, 2018

Foundry ships Modo Indie 11

Long-awaited update adds the Unreal Engine live bridge and tools from the Modo 11 Series itself, glTF 2.0 support. Free to current users.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2018