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

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1

Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.

Thursday, January 13th, 2022

Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists

Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.

Thursday, December 23rd, 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

Discover how to create a lighting template in Katana

Get started with the lighting and look dev software with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed introductory tutorial.

Saturday, September 4th, 2021

Master creature grooming techniques in Houdini

Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.

Monday, August 9th, 2021

Insydium launches Fused

New $1,000 product bundle includes all of Insydium's Cinema 4D plugins and asset packs, plus new modelling add-on MeshTools.

Tuesday, July 27th, 2021

Master character look dev in Maya and Arnold

Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Sunday, July 25th, 2021

Pilgway ships 3DCoatTextura

New sub-€100 3D texturing app can be used to paint or bake 16k PBR texture maps for use in other DCC software or game engines.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting

Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2021

Check out MattePaint 4.0

Online library of source images for matte painters now available as 16-bit DNG RAW and 32-bit EXR files, along with 360-degree HDRI skies.

Tuesday, June 29th, 2021

Adobe apologises to asset creators for Substance promos

Uncredited use of Greyscalegorilla and HDRI Haven content in videos for the Substance 3D Collection was 'a mistake'.

Monday, June 28th, 2021