Autodesk releases Maya 2025.1

Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, from updates to LookdevX to a sneak peek at character rigging in Bifrost.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

Twinmotion is now free to indie artists and studios

Real-time visualization tool is free for commercial use to anyone earning under $1 million/year. See what else is new in Twinmotion 2023.2.4.

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024

AWS launches Deadline Cloud

Online service based around AWS's free Deadline renderfarm manager 'makes it easy to set up a cloud-based render farm in minutes'.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024

Unity to lay off 25% of its staff

Firm to cut approximately 1,800 jobs in a bid to refocus on its core game engine and game tools business.

Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 2

Sizeable update to the production renderer adds MaterialX support, new Enscape bridge, and updates to V-Ray GPU and Chaos Scatter.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Unity ends services agreement with Wētā FX: 265 staff laid off

Firms to end deal struck in 2021 when Unity acquired Weta Digital's in-house VFX technology and engineering staff.

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

Epic Games lays off 16% of its employees, sells Bandcamp

But the firm 'continues to invest' in Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, Megascans, Twinmotion and RealityCapture, despite 830 job cuts.

Friday, September 29th, 2023

NIM Labs launches NIM 6.0

Update to the studio management platform gives visual effects and motion graphics studios better tools for managing their job bids.

Friday, August 11th, 2023

AXYZ design ships anima 5.0

Crowd simulation system for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and UE5 gets new AI-based 'neural crowds' engine, and physical motion blur.

Monday, October 3rd, 2022

Blender Studio releases Flamenco 3

Set up a Blender render farm 'in five minutes' with the new version of the open-source render manager

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

5 CG software updates you may have missed in July 2022

Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022

Unity is laying off around 4% of its staff

Firm sheds around 200 of the staff gained in its billion-dollar spending spree since going public in 2020.

Friday, July 1st, 2022

Color Intelligence unveils Colourlab Ai 2.0

See what's new in this big update to the hotly tipped AI-based color grading tool, now in public beta.

Saturday, February 26th, 2022