Motion graphics tools pioneers win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Original creators of After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D's MoGraph toolset win tech Oscars.

Monday, December 17th, 2018

Act-3D releases Lumion 9.0

Real-time visualisation tool gets new toolsets for sky lighting, rain, grass and fur in the Pro edition; better workflow in the base edition.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Flowbox ships Flowbox 1.7, integrates Mocha

Smart roto tool gets new edition with the Academy Award-winning planar tracker integrated into it.

Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R8

Updated: Long-awaited update to the sculpting tool adds real-time Booleans, vector displacement meshes, eight new deformers.

Tuesday, June 13th, 2017

D3CRYPT3D aims to protect your 3D models from piracy

Updated: Beta 2 of new anti-piracy tech for preventing unauthorised use of 3D models available free.

Saturday, April 1st, 2017

The Pixel Farm releases PFTrack 2017

Biggest update to the camera tracker in five years extends the photogrammetry tools, integrates PFDepth for free.

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

The Lytro Cinema system: the next revolution in VFX?

Could new high-end light field movie cameras eliminate greenscreen work? CG Channel investigates.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2016

Eye candy: the fantastical new Miarmy crowds reel

See great new work created with the Maya crowd tool, from Chinese CG features to epic zombie-themed ads.

Monday, April 27th, 2015

Gnomon ships Introduction to World Machine

Master the powerful terrain-creation tool with this two-hour video from QuadSpinner founder Dax Pandhi.

Monday, March 30th, 2015

The Captury releases Captury Studio 1.0

Intriguing new markerless mocap system promises to capture any actor, anywhere - including animals.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2015

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 4.5

3D clothing design tool adds support for multiple avatars, plus FBX and OBJ export for animations.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2015

Q&A: Oblivion concept artist Thom Tenery

The top architectural designer looks back on a career that spans malls, Doom 4 and Hollywood movies.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

ZBrush and Mudbox creators win technical Oscars

ILM and Weta tool developers and pioneers of deep compositing also win Sci-Tech Academy Awards.

Thursday, January 9th, 2014