10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Sneak peek: V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D

Updated: early registration now available for the beta of the next major version of the C4D renderer.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R23

Major update to Cinema 4D adds new character animation tools, better UV editing, and integrates the $399 Magic Bullet Looks suite.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0.4

Big update cuts render times on modern multi-core CPUs; adds new IPR window for 3ds Max users, and new Cinema 4D scattering system.

Thursday, August 6th, 2020

Foundry ships Modo 14.1

3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Chaos Group releases Project Lavina Beta 0.4

New tool for real-time ray traced previews of V-Ray scenes gets new animation editor, physical camera.

Thursday, July 9th, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020

Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4D

Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system, improves rendering of caustics.

Thursday, November 28th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23

Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21

Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 5.0.4 for Maya

Gaseous fluid simulator gets new multiview option for the GPU viewport, more controls for Turbulence Noise.

Friday, August 9th, 2019

Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2

Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

Pixar releases Opensubdiv 3.4

Open-source subdivision library used in many DCC tools now supports same feature set for Loop and Catmull-Clark subdivision.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019