Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 CG discounts

We round up 50 seasonal deals on CG tools, including Modo, Corona, LightWave, Painter and Poser Pro.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Trimble ships SketchUp 2016

Architectural modeling tool gets improved 3D drawing workflow, updated texture library. Pro users get new online collaboration system.

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

The Foundry gets new CEO

UK TV executive Alex Mahon takes over from Bill Collis, who remains full-time as the firm's president.

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

Review: HP ZBook 17 G2 mobile workstation

Jason Lewis puts HP's top-of-the-range pro mobile system through a battery of real-world tests.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Autodesk to discontinue turnkey Flame systems

High-end finishing system now available as a software-only product for Linux - and soon, for Mac OS X.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.6

Latest update smooths 4K texture painting and adds new drag and drop workflow for material layering.

Friday, October 30th, 2015

Our pick of Siggraph Asia's Emerging Technologies

Videos: See the coolest tech at next week's show: from brush-based styluses to a system for wearing someone else's face.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap 2.0 for 3ds Max

Inexpensive one-click UV unwrapping tool gets new options for selecting and organising UVs and handling seams.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

Sneak peek: Houdini 15

Updated: See the new crowd sim and simulation slicing options, plus the new Principled PBR shader.

Monday, September 28th, 2015

Red Giant Software releases Magic Bullet Suite 12.1

Updated: Suite of GPU-accelerated grading tools gets new layered grading option, better support for DaVinci Resolve.

Friday, September 25th, 2015

INTiMATE will let you talk to characters to control them

IKinema's new technology aims to enable devs to build simple text and voice controls into tools like Maya.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2015

Next Limit releases RealFlow 2015

Fluid simulator gets new GPU based solvers, better OpenVDB support, new artist and TD tools.

Friday, July 31st, 2015

Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.5

Hybrid renderer gets new advanced material options, plus support for Allegorithmic's Substances.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2015