Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.25

Sizeable update to the free AAA game engine introduces new UI, plus white box testing and node-based landscape authoring tools.

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Otoy ships Sculptron Alpha 2

Latest free build of Otoy's new tool for sculpting animation caches speeds up playback 'about 10x' and adds a readymade toon material.

Friday, July 17th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.83 LTS

The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.

Thursday, June 4th, 2020

Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

NewTek ships LightWave 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2

Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.

Monday, April 6th, 2020

Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1

Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Otoy unveils Sculptron

Check out this new GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches or converting them to volumes, available as a free public alpha.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

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

Foundry ships Modo 13.2

3D modelling and animation tool gets new mPath render engine, new Planar IK solver for character rigging, new Edge Chamfer tool.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2

Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.

Tuesday, August 6th, 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