Adobe ships After Effects 18.0

Compositing app gets new real-time draft preview mode for 3D work. Separate beta build adds support for multi-frame rendering.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

Corel ships Painter Essentials 8

Sub-$50 natural media painting software gets support for Apple's M1 chips, more AI-based auto-paint options, new colour harmonies.

Tuesday, February 16th, 2021

Adobe ships Photoshop 22.2 and Photoshop on the iPad 2.1

Image editing apps get new cloud collaboration tools. Desktop edition gets new vector shape controls.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Sneak peek: Instant Terra 2.0

Video: see the new animation toolset in the next major version of Wysilab's terrain generation tool, due for release later this month.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

The 20 most popular Gnomon Workshop tutorials of 2020

Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

Discover how to create photorealistic 3D props

Master industry-standard modelling and shading workflows in The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances

Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2021.1

3D texture painting tool gets new Geometry Mask system, plus option to copy effects between layers.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Download VR modelling tool Gravity Sketch for free

Powerful virtual reality design tool now free to individual artists, including OBJ, FBX, IGES export.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini

See all the new features in the Houdini edition of renderer, from ACEScg to updates to VRayDirt.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

Wysilab ships Instant Terra 1.15

Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including new options for searching for and importing real-world terrain data.

Tuesday, December 15th, 2020

Master Maya customisation for faster animation

Harness Maya's hidden powers with Naughty Dog animator Ari Flesch's time-saving tips and hacks.

Monday, December 7th, 2020

Nvidia launches the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

New $399 8GB card outperforms the old RTX 2080 Super in Arnold, Blender, Redshift and V-Ray 5.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020