Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Tungsten Drop 4

Check out the changes to the presets system in the latest update to the real-time lighting design tool.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Chaos Group launches the V-Ray Education Collection

New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0

LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

Eye candy: Adobe's Substance 2020 games reel

Watch a high-speed rundown of the year's most beautiful AAA games, all created using Substance tools.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

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Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

Check out the Blender 3.0 and LTS product roadmap

Next big update to the open-source 3D software due in 2021, with long term support releases every year.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019

Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.

Sunday, January 12th, 2020

Quixel ships Bridge 2019.5

Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.

Sunday, December 15th, 2019

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0

Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Otoy unveils Sculptron

Check out this new GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches or converting them to volumes, available as a free public alpha.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview

GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019