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

How I started a new VFX studio with Nuke Indie

[Promotion] NOX VFX founder Henrique Reginato reveals the opportunities Nuke Indie unlocks for freelance artists.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Discover how a Gnomon Workshop tutorial is created

Follow instructor Eric Keller as he creates Introduction to Maya 2020, his detailed new Gnomon tutorial.

Friday, January 1st, 2021

BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser

Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists

Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.91

Open-source 3D app gets another major update. Read our five-minute run-down of all the key changes.

Thursday, November 26th, 2020