Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2022.1

See Unity's new tools for material variants and splines, and updates to 2D art and virtual production.

Friday, May 13th, 2022

Nevercenter ships Silo 2021.5 and Milo 2021.4

Check out the new features in the lightweight Sub-D modelling app and its new real-time renderer.

Monday, March 28th, 2022

Blender 3.1 ships

Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

Blender 3.0 ships

Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

ArmorPaint 0.8 ships

Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Quixel ships Mixer 2021.1.2

Latest update extends the free material creation software's handling of UDIMs and texture sets. See all of the new features here.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021

To NFT or not to NFT?

Sales of digital art via NFTs divide opinion in the CG community. We spoke to artists and financial experts about the pros and cons.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Unity acquires Pixyz Software

Buyout of Pixyz's CAD data preparation and import tools may also lead to new workflows for games artists in the Unity Editor.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Discover 5 key new features from Blender 2.93 LTS

See the highlights of today's update to the open-source 3D app, from sculpting to 2D animation.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021

Otoy ships Sculptron 1.1

GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

Isotropix ships Clarisse 5.0

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2021.1

Significant update to the real-time visualisation tool adds new bridge to UE4, new Megascans assets.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Autodesk ships Maya 2022

Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021