Maxon ships Cinema 4D S24

Subscriber-only update to the 3D animation software adds new asset browser and scene manager, and new physics-enabled layout tools.

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

Nvidia announces pricing and new plugins for Omniverse

Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

The making of Rebellion's Evil Genius 2 cinematic trailer

Discover how Rebellion's VFX team created the game's colourful trailer using Houdini and Unreal Engine.

Saturday, April 10th, 2021

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.1 for Blender and Maya

Free GPU renderer get supports for Cryptomatte AOVs, and a new 16-bit Machine Learning denoiser.

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create

Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

Discover 10 key new features from Blender 2.92

Discover the most important new tools in the open-source 3D app, from geometry nodes to APIC sims.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

Get a free 46,080 x 23,040px displacement map of the Moon

Download this detailed free texture map to recreate the lunar surface in 3D. Licensed for commercial use.

Sunday, February 21st, 2021

Kinematic Lab releases PhysX Painter 2.0 for 3ds Max

Amazing plugin for painting objects into scenes under gravity also now lets you Attract or Explode them.

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

The 20 most popular Gnomon Workshop tutorials of 2020

Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

Download five free loopable OpenVDB smoke animations

Get Between Two Pines' simulated jets of smoke or steam for use in your 3D scenes. Commercial use.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances

Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Get a free 43,200 x 21,600px displacement map of the Earth

Create detailed renders of the planet's surface from space with this huge free 16-bit texture map.

Thursday, January 21st, 2021