Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11

VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.

Friday, March 17th, 2017

Blackmagic ships new control panels for DaVinci Resolve

Grading software gets two low-cost hardware control surfaces. Free version now available for Linux.

Friday, March 3rd, 2017

Silicon Studio to release Xenko game engine commercially

Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.

Friday, February 24th, 2017

Redshift devs release Redshift for Houdini

New integration plugin for the GPU renderer supports Houdini's native primitives, instancing and volumes.

Saturday, February 18th, 2017

Blender 2.78b ships

New update improves speed of Blender's Cycles renderer over 10x on shots with motion blur and hair.

Tuesday, February 14th, 2017

Get four free Renderpeople 3D character models

Updated: New figures are fully rigged for 3ds Max, Maya, C4D. All are licensed for commercial use.

Sunday, February 12th, 2017

The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.1.2

Updated: Open-source painting app gets early support for audio in the new 2D animation toolset.

Saturday, February 11th, 2017

StratusCore launches one-stop cloud service for CG artists

Rent complete virtual workstations loaded with 2D or 3D software and on-demand rendering and storage.

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

Cost of headsets is holding back VR, says Sketchfab poll

Other findings: HTC Vive is 3D artists' favourite headset - and a surprising number of us already use VR for work.

Friday, January 20th, 2017

The 10 best visual effects breakdowns of 2016

Watch our pick of the best movie, TV and commercials breakdown videos created in the past year.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

MeshLab 2016 ships

Newly updated open-source app provides complete set of tools for cleaning and editing 3D scan data, or readying meshes for 3D printing.

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017

Best Christmas and New Year discounts for CG artists

Check out our seasonal list of money-saving offers on CG tools including 3D-Coat, Arion, Mari, Modo and Xfrog.

Friday, December 23rd, 2016

Discover how to run a successful VR studio

Get tips from The Foundry and VR Playhouse at Gnomon's LA campus next Thursday. Watch free online.

Friday, December 2nd, 2016