Tutorial: Unreal Engine 5 Lighting Fundamentals

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial sets out all of UE5's key lighting tools, from Lightmass to Lumen.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

GauGAN360 turns doodles into 360-degree environments

Nvidia's new AI art demo turns sketches into 360° environment maps for use inside 3D software.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Das Element uses AI to sort your VFX asset library

Neat tool turns your 'chaos folder' into an organised library of assets using a VFX-specific AI model. See the new features in Das Element 1.2.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.2

Real-time visualisation software gets new HDRI backdrop system, and physics-based layout tools.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2022

Maxon ships Cinema 4D S26.1

Subscriber-only release updates Cinema 4D's cloth simulation tools and node UI, and adds new HDRIs, textures and Redshift materials.

Thursday, June 30th, 2022

Discover how Maarten Verhoeven created 'Red Myst'

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals the digital sculptor's workflow in ZBrush and KeyShot.

Saturday, June 18th, 2022

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.3.1

Latest update to the material authoring software adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022

Check out promising browser-based renderer Colorful

New tool creates photorealistic visualisations in your web browser. You can try the public beta for free.

Thursday, May 5th, 2022

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4.2

Update makes new Omniverse connection plugin available to all users of the lighting design tool.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

Sneak peek: Content-Aware Fill in Substance 3D Sampler

Neat Photoshop-style feature automatically removes unwanted details from all channels of a material at once.

Thursday, March 24th, 2022

Download 2,600 free 2K sky images from MattePaint

Get 2,000 x 1,000px sky images to use in matte painting or as render backplates. For commercial use.

Sunday, February 13th, 2022

5 steps to creating convincing photorealistic 3D portraits

Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022

IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0

Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.

Monday, January 17th, 2022