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Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Winter 2023 deals for CG artists

Discover great seasonal discounts on 3D assets, apps and software, including offers still valid until the end of December.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Planetside Software updates Terragen Sky

Streamlined tool for generating skies for use in matte paintings or as environment maps gets 32K HDR export, better live sync with UE5.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Greyscalegorilla now available for 'all major 3D software'

Formerly Cinema 4D-only library of materials, models and HDRIs now also available for apps including Blender, Houdini and Unreal Engine.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2023

Download Ten24's free hi-res 3D scan of a female human head

Get a free 3D scan of a female head as FBX, OBJ, ZBrush and Blender files, with 8K PBR textures, plus 26 free makeup and dirt overlays.

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Adobe unveils new 'true 3D' workspace in After Effects

Latest public beta lets users render 3D models directly inside the compositing software, using the new Advanced 3D renderer.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2

Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

Welcome to the new CG Channel!

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Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.5

Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.

Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Autodesk announces new generative AI tools in Maya

New AI services will let artists generate materials, textures or HDRIs inside Maya's LookdevX.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2023

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8

Real-time lighting app gets neat new Scrim Light type mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

Download free 3D resources from Substance 3D Assets

Updated: get the latest set of free assets, including leaf and plant materials in .sbsar and .sbs format.

Sunday, April 23rd, 2023

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2023.1

Now shipping: visualisation tool gets streamlined new UI, updated path tracer, multi-GPU rendering.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.1

Material authoring and 3D capture software gets new Paint Warp filter to straighten scanned textures.

Friday, March 31st, 2023

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Faceform releases Wrap 2025.11 and Wrap4D 2025.11

Check out the new features in the varied updates to the topology transfer tools for creating 3D characters from scan data.

Friday, December 26th, 2025

Happy holidays to all CG Channel readers!

Site updates may be less frequent than usual over the next week, but normal service will resume on Monday 5 January.

Thursday, December 25th, 2025

AOUSD releases the OpenUSD Core Specification

First formal USD spec marks a step towards making USD an ISO-ratified cross-industry standard. See what it means for CG software developers.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025

NVIDIA launches 72GB RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU

New 72GB edition of the RTX PRO 5000 increases memory capacity for GPU rendering and simulation. Check out its specs and street price.

Monday, December 22nd, 2025

Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 7.5 for 3ds Max

New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the 3ds Max effects plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

Friday, December 19th, 2025

Adobe releases Photoshop 25.2

Latest update to the image-editing and digital painting software adds the option to choose new third-party AI models for Generative Fill.

Thursday, December 18th, 2025

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