Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists

Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Terragen Sky now lets you paint clouds into the sky directly

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Create game characters with CC Auto Setup for 3ds Max and V-Ray

[Sponsored] Discover how Reallusion's free plugin streamlines the transfer of characters from Character Creator 4 to 3ds Max.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2024

Leopoly releases Shapelab 2025 and Shapelab Lite

Check out the new features in the sculpting tool for VR and desktop systems, and its new lower-cost edition for Meta Quest 3 headsets.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2024

Tutorial - Modeling for Film & TV: Hard-Surface Vehicles

Discover to create a truck model suitable for use in a VFX production pipeline with The Gnomon Workshop's best-practice guide.

Sunday, December 8th, 2024

Maxon releases ZBrush 2025.1

Digital sculpting software gets new Quick Polygroup Brush, updated Anchors Brush, tighter integration with the Redshift renderer.

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.9

GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024

Download Poly Haven's free Namaqualand 3D scan library

Get over 30 free 3D scans of desert plants, rocks and ground materials in Blender, FBX and USD format, and 10 16K HDRIs. CC0 license.

Sunday, October 13th, 2024

Tutorial: Cinematic Lighting Shot Production

Master professional CG lighting workflows in Maya, Arnold, Katana and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Sunday, October 6th, 2024

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2024.1.1

Real-time visualization software gets new wind animation controls for plants and fabric. Check out the other new features here.

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024

Tutorial: Race Vehicle Concept Design

Discover how to design plausible near-future vehicles in Blender with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly new tutorial.

Sunday, July 28th, 2024

Free tool: Character Creator Auto Setup for 3ds Max

Reallusion's free add-on readies characters exported from Character Creator and iClone for rendering in 3ds Max with Arnold or V-Ray.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024