The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists

Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.

Friday, December 21st, 2018

cebas ships finalRender Drop 2

Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Nevercenter ships Silo 2.5.6

Lightweight subdivision surface modelling tool gets GoZ support for exchanging models with ZBrush.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2

Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018

e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory

Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding

New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.

Monday, November 19th, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21

Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.

Thursday, November 8th, 2018

Render Legion ships Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 2

Update adds node-based material editor, new skin and hair shaders, automated conversion of C4D and V-Ray materials.

Monday, November 5th, 2018

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20

Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.

Monday, September 3rd, 2018

New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4

Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2

Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

Unity 2018.1 is now shipping. Check out the highlights here

It's a huge update, so get up to speed faster with our run-down of the key features for CG artists.

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap

See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.

Friday, March 23rd, 2018