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
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Eye candy: Foundry's 2017 showreel
See the best work created with Nuke and Mari, from Rogue One and Doctor Strange to ads and VR.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2017
See the month's best real-time models, like this bust by Firaxis Games lead character artist Matthew Kean.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists
Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
Nvidia discontinues Mental Ray
Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Lagoa to close its online rendering service
Pioneering cloud-based platform to shut down in favor of development work for current owner Autodesk.
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
Xsens releases MVN Animate 2018
Firm claims that its new software lets inertial motion capture match optical systems for data accuracy.
Monday, November 13th, 2017
Get four free Renderpeople rigged 3D characters
Updated: Scan-based figures work in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya - and now Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine.
Sunday, November 12th, 2017
Master environment art with Gnomon's new training videos
Two detailed new video tutorials set out current environment design workflows for VFX and games.
Monday, October 30th, 2017
IDV ships SpeedTree Cinema 8
Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Nukeygara ships Akeytsu 1.0
Now shipping: innovative new tool aims to rethink rigging and animation for artists, not engineers. Check out the feature set here.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Rizom-Lab ships Unfold3D V10 VS and Unfold3D V10 RS
Popular UV unwrapping tool gets two new market-specific editions for design and entertainment work.
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
Nvidia releases Mental Ray for Maya 1.2
First version of the renderer compatible with Maya 2018, and with Nvidia's upcoming Volta GPUs.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017