Autodesk releases Arnold 7.3

Check out the changes in the compatibility-breaking update to the renderer, including better denoising and progressive rendering.

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Get Reallusion's five great free animation-ready 3D characters

Download free, fully rigged human characters with Reallusion's animation-friendly CC3+ Base topology. For commercial use.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

Tutorial: Nuke Projection Workflows for Feature Films

Master the techniques professional artists use to speed up VFX work with The Gnomon Workshop's new seven-hour masterclass.

Saturday, March 16th, 2024

New pricing for Unreal Engine, Twinmotion and RealityCapture

Epic Games has announced new subscription-based pricing for its key software products. See who the changes affect, and when they start.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

Master Character Animation Fundamentals for Games

Discover how to animate walk cycles, run cycles and attack animations in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed introductory tutorial.

Saturday, March 9th, 2024

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8.2

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design software, including new shadow modes for the signature LightPaint system.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

Tutorial: Creating a High-Fidelity Hero Building

Discover how to create environment assets for VFX or games cinematics in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Saturday, March 2nd, 2024

Imbalance releases Ragdoll for Blender 1.0

Much-praised Ragdoll Dynamics physics system, used by top VFX and games studios, is now available for Blender as well as Maya.

Friday, March 1st, 2024

Is V-Ray for Blender back in active development?

Chaos is working on the integration between its V-Ray renderer and the open-source 3D software 'right now', according to its latest livestream.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

Maxon releases Redshift 3.5.24

Production renderer gets native support for the hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology in Apple's new M3 processors.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

Blender Foundation unveils Project Baklava

Check out Blender's work-in-progress layered animation system, including the roadmap, tech demos - and some very early UI mockups.

Friday, February 16th, 2024

Epic Games releases RealityScan 1.4

Check out the new features in the free photogrammetry app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, including better scan cropping tools.

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

NVIDIA launches $625 RTX 2000 workstation GPU

New small-form-factor 16GB card is the cheapest Ada Generation pro GPU. See how it performs in CG apps like 3ds Max, Maya and V-Ray.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2024