Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.13

Free game engine gets experimental support for Nvidia's PhysX real-time physics system, more integrated cloud functionality.

Monday, March 26th, 2018

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2019

Now shipping: Watch videos of the new features, including support for Open Shading Language and the Advanced Wood procedural map.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Autodesk ships Mudbox 2018.2

First major update to the digital sculpting tool in years adds neat new dynamic tessellation system, plus support for HiDPI displays.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2018.1

Big VFX-focused update to the material authoring tool adds UDIM workflow, 30% speed boost when opening large assets.

Monday, March 12th, 2018

Epic Games launches Unreal Studio in free open beta

New real-time visualisation product gets 3ds Max scenes or CAD data into Unreal Engine for rendering.

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018

10 tips for negotiating a better salary as a CG artist

Get the salary you deserve with Doom and Call of Duty concept artist Eliott Lilly's 10 career tips.

Monday, March 5th, 2018

3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 3.7

Photogrammetry tool now supports multitextures, including the UDIM format, and multiband images. Price of the Pro edition down $500.

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.0

Newly updated tool coverts Blender scenes to interactive 3D web applications, complete with Cycles-compatible PBR materials.

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Soft8Soft releases Verge3D

Updated: turn 3D assets created in Blender - and now also in 3ds Max - into interactive scenes you can view in a standard web browser.

Friday, February 9th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 1 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Updated: Find more info on the new light cache analysis-based 'smart features' like auto exposure.

Monday, January 22nd, 2018

See the 10 hottest new features due in Blender in 2018

Read the Blender Foundation's pick of the top dev projects, from the Eevee PBR viewport renderer to 'Animation 2020'.

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

NewTek ships LightWave 2018

Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.

Monday, January 1st, 2018

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.3

New particle shading options, plus updates to the Cinemachine, 360° video and lightmap baking toolsets.

Friday, December 22nd, 2017