Epic Games announces Fab

Unreal Engine, ArtStation and Sketchfab marketplaces to merge into giant 'open market' with assets for all DCC apps & game engines.

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023

Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6

Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.

Friday, March 17th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 2.0

Scene layout and rendering app gets presets for turntable renders, USD export and CAD file import.

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Autodesk releases Open RV

The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.

Thursday, January 19th, 2023

Nuke to go subscription-only

Sales of perpetual licences of Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio and Hiero to end on 31 December. Annual subscriptions introduced.

Wednesday, January 11th, 2023

Foundry ships Katana 6.0

Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

ZBrush 2022.0.7 ships

Check out the new features in the final free update to ZBrush for perpetual licence holders, including improved USD export to Omniverse.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Humanoid 3D Character

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Download free Unity ebooks for technical and VFX artists

Free PDF guides provide overviews of the game engine's key toolsets, with downloadable examples.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

CG industry news round-up: November 2022

Amazon gets into crowd simulation, Autodesk buys into volumetric video, and Sketchfab goes 18+ only.

Monday, December 5th, 2022

Blender Foundation unveils the Animation 2025 Project

Ambitious three-year plan to revamp Blender's rigging and animation tools begins next year.

Thursday, December 1st, 2022

Topaz Labs ships Video AI 3.1

Ever use Gigapixel AI to upscale your 3D renders? Check out its newly revamped AI-based sibling app for upresing video to up to 8K.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022