Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.1 in beta

New C#-scriptable render pipeline and node-based shader editor, but no more native Substance support.

Thursday, January 11th, 2018

See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017

Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.

Sunday, December 24th, 2017

Abvent releases Twinmotion 2018 v2

Real-time visualisation tool gets support for VR controllers, new quality-boosting Overdraw mode.

Friday, December 15th, 2017

Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists

Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

Foundry ships Modo 11.2

Videos: See the new Principled BRDF shader and procedural modelling tools in action. Lots of UV workflow improvements, too.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

Reallusion ships PopcornFX iClone particle plugin

Real-time animation tool gets particle add-on based on tech for Substance Painter particle brushes.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

Nukeygara ships Akeytsu 1.0

Now shipping: innovative new tool aims to rethink rigging and animation for artists, not engineers. Check out the feature set here.

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

Crytek releases CryEngine 5.4

Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.

Thursday, September 21st, 2017

Foundry ships Modo 11.1

Videos: Update adds live bridge to Unreal Engine, better modelling and UV packing tools, option to bake object space normal maps.

Friday, June 30th, 2017

Sneak peek: Unity 2017.1's powerful new cinematics tools

Watch 30 minutes of footage of the Timeline editor, Cinemachine 2.0 procedural camera system, and 16K video recorder.

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

Get Epic Games' free volume modelling plugin for UE4

Download this nifty new tool to paint volumetric objects directly in VR, complete with fluid velocities.

Monday, May 8th, 2017

Silicon Studio ships Xenko 2.0

Rendering middleware firm's 'next-level C# game engine' now shipping commercially, but still free to individuals and indie studios.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Reallusion releases Character Creator 2.0

Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.

Friday, March 24th, 2017