Master Realistic Dog Grooming for Production with XGen

Image Engine grooming artist Jordan Soler's new Gnomon tutorial provides a complete guide to Maya's fur toolset.

Saturday, January 26th, 2019

NewTek ships LightWave 2019

Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

Autodesk ships Maya 2019 and Maya LT 2019

Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.

Tuesday, January 15th, 2019

The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018

Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.

Saturday, January 12th, 2019

Agisoft releases Metashape

Popular image-based modelling tool PhotoScan gets a free update speeding up 3D mesh generation - and changing the product name.

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

Motion graphics tools pioneers win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Original creators of After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D's MoGraph toolset win tech Oscars.

Monday, December 17th, 2018

Foundry ships Nuke 11.3, NukeX 11.3, Nuke Studio 11.3

Nuke gets new Live Groups options and eGPU support; new Smart Vector tools and faster particle simulation in NukeX.

Friday, December 14th, 2018

Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 2018.3

Material authoring software gets PBR Render node, faster texture baking on Nvidia's new RTX GPUs.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory

Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

Get two free Renderpeople animated characters

Download free animated characters in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and FBX formats. For commercial use.

Sunday, November 25th, 2018

Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding

New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.

Monday, November 19th, 2018

Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2019

Mocha Pro now has 360° tracking tool Mocha VR; Continuum gets 2D particle system particleIllusion.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Check out procedural CG creature generator Kozinarium

Updated: meet crazy new creatures created with the Houdini tech demo weekly on the @Kozinarium Twitter feed.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018