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

Pilgway releases 3DCoatTextura 2023

Lower-cost edition of 3DCoat for texture painting gets new colour smoothing tool, better UV mapping.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

MetaShoot puts a virtual photo studio in Unreal Engine

New plugin makes rendering model turntables or product visualisations inside UE5 a one-click process.

Friday, March 24th, 2023

Nvidia's free Canvas app now generates 360° 4K EXRs

Free AI art tool turns your sketches into environment maps for use in game engines and DCC apps.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6

Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

Free tool: Batch Tonemapper

Handy free app batch-generates JPEG thumbnails for EXR and HDR files so they can be previewed properly on Windows or Linux.

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

Planetside Software unveils Terragen Sky

Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.

Monday, December 19th, 2022

Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Womp lets you create 3D models in your web browser

Appealing new service lets you create 3D models for concept design or 3D printing via a real-time Boolean workflow.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

Blender and 3DCoat tutorial: Designing a Military Aircraft

Learn time-saving tricks to speed up 3D concept design with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Friday, October 14th, 2022