Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021

See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists

Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Quixel ships Mixer 2020.1.6

Free material authoring tool gets system for exporting layer masks to DCC apps and game engines, plus 65 new bundled Smart Materials.

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Facebook becomes Corporate Patron of Blender

Social media giant is the most suprising $120,000+/year backer of the open-source 3D software so far.

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Luxion ships KeyShot 10.0

Renderer gets new Light Manager, better cloth and caustic effects. KeyShot Pro users get new animation and Smart Export tools.

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020

Polycam turns your iPad Pro into a real-time LIDAR scanner

Updated - now on iPhone Pro too: neat $12 app builds up 3D scans of objects as you walk around them.

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs

New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

Sneak peek: the Deform Stack in Otoy's Sculptron

Free GPU-based sculpting tool's new modifier stack will deform high-res meshes in near-real time.

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

Rookies 2020 rankings reveal world's best CG schools

Gnomon places best overall and best for VFX. See the winners for animation and game design here.

Monday, October 26th, 2020

Adobe ships After Effects 17.5

Compositing app gets much-anticipated AI-driven Roto Brush 2.0 tool, plus motion-graphics-focused new 3D Design Space.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020

Lenovo releases 'world's first Threadripper Pro workstation'

Now shipping: see the prices and specs for the Lenovo P620 and AMD's Threadripper Pro CPUs.

Thursday, October 15th, 2020

Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine

Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

Check out fast 3ds Max cloth simulation plugin Dynamo

Deform Dynamics' real-time cloth simulation tool performs '10-100x faster' than Max's Cloth modifier.

Friday, October 9th, 2020