You can play Super Mario Bros inside Substance 3D Designer

Quinton Qu's incredible feat of visual programming wins Adobe's 2021 Substance 3D Designer Insanity Award.

Thursday, January 27th, 2022

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R25

3D software gets updated UI, new Capsules and presets workflows, direct import of vector files, new options for stylising animations.

Wednesday, September 15th, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU

Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Maxon ships Universe 4.0

Set of effects plugins for editors and compositors adds electricity, stop motion and analog effects, plus Metal support for Mac users.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

Master texturing for production in Mari and Maya

Discover key texturing techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Thursday, May 27th, 2021

Chaos releases Phoenix 4.40 for 3ds Max and Maya

New update to the fluid simulator once known as Phoenix FD adds collision between floating objects.

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Maxon ships Cinema 4D S24

Subscriber-only update to the 3D animation software adds new asset browser and scene manager, and new physics-enabled layout tools.

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2021.4

Digital painting and image editing app gets revamped convolve tools, like this interesting CLAHE filter.

Saturday, March 27th, 2021

Foundry reveals its 2021 Mari product roadmap

3D texturing app to get Python 3 support, new USD workflows and updated brush engine, but macOS edition cancelled.

Friday, March 19th, 2021

Marius Silaghi releases five new Pro plugins for 3ds Max

Updated: Contrast Pro, Push Pro, Relax Pro and Shell Pro - and now Path Deform Pro - power up Max modelling workflows.

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D

Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.

Friday, January 22nd, 2021

Anastasiy releases MagicSquire 4.4

Popular Photoshop brush organiser plugin gets improved support for Apple's M1 processor in new Macs.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021