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

Adobe ships Dimension 3.0

Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.

Monday, November 4th, 2019

Download MASD's free Arnold to V-Ray scene converter

Mads Drøschler's handy 3ds Max add-on converts V-Ray and Corona scenes to Arnold for rendering.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23

Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21

Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

Adobe ships Substance Designer 2019.2

Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps.

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.3

Rendering and compositing tool for graphic designers gets new widget for aligning objects automatically, option to publish scenes online.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

Get Allan McKay's free Thanos VFX video training course

Destroy the Avengers antihero using 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD in this epic set of free tutorials.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019

Chaos Group launches Chaos Research

New blue sky research initiative to explore 'less clumsy' ways to create CG images via machine learning.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

Learn the art of lighting for animation

Master key skills in Maya, Arnold and Nuke with Sony Pictures Imageworks lighting TD Alex Corll's new video tutorial.

Saturday, May 11th, 2019

Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.2

3D app for graphic designers gets support for cloud rendering and Substance materials, but the old V-Ray render engine has gone.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Luxion ships KeyShot 8.2

Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019