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

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81

The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Abvent ships Artlantis 2020

Architectural renderer gets new image denoiser, light portal system, more types of 3D grass, and RAL colour presets to mimic real paints.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019

Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max

Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system and new hair materials to the renderer.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

LuxCoreRender 2.2 ships

Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Rhino Update 1

Rhino edition of the renderer gets new Cryptomatte render element, expanded support for Grasshopper.

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21

Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

Unity 2019.2 ships

Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Adobe unveils Project Anorigami

See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Houdini

Now shipping: new edition of V-Ray lets VFX studios use Houdini for look dev as well as final rendering.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Corona Renderer 4 ships for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Updated - C4D edition shipping: renderer gets fast new caustics system, more denoising options, fisheye camera.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

RandomControl launches Maverick Studio

Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

Intel unveils HdOSPRay and OpenVKL

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019