Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 1.0

New free Substance integration plugin for 3ds Max now out of beta and ready for use in production.

Friday, April 13th, 2018

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Find free 3D models directly inside Unity, UE4 and Godot

New free plugins let users search for and import Sketchfab assets with Creative Commons licences.

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

Otoy reveals its roadmap for OctaneRender 2018 and 2019

Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018

Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 2.0

LightWave fluid simulatior gets new granular and viscous jet solvers, plus support for GPU acceleration.

Monday, March 5th, 2018

Try this impressive new FLIP fluid simulator for Blender

Sign up to beta test Ryan Guy and Dennis Fassbaender's production-ready fluid solver for Blender 2.79.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5

Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2017

Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by our 125,000 Facebook followers.

Tuesday, January 9th, 2018

Weeds: the story of an indie short made by Disney artists

Discover how artists working in their personal time created a 3D short using the same tech as a Disney feature.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

Download 11 free 3D scans from Megascans 2018

Get free scans of ground materials, rocks and vegetation from Quixel's newly revamped online library.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

Foundry ships Modo 11.2

Videos: See the new Principled BRDF shader and procedural modelling tools in action. Lots of UV workflow improvements, too.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

Discover how Disney artist Kevin Hudson created 'Weeds'

Explore the making of an indie short created with Disney tech at Gnomon's free event next week. Watch free online.

Friday, November 3rd, 2017

IDV ships SpeedTree Cinema 8

Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.

Thursday, October 26th, 2017