Watch Lion, Unity's fur-raising new tech demo

Beautiful new demo shows millions of strands of CG hair, rendered in real time in 4K on a PlayStation 5.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Nvidia announces plan to 'evolve USD beyond VFX'

Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Tutorial: Designing & Creating a Creature Bust

Create a production-ready 3D creature with this new Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Wētā FX's Pascal Raimbault.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Download Animal Logic's free ALab USD production scene

Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.

Friday, August 5th, 2022

ASWF adopts OpenAssetIO and OpenFX

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Amazon makes AWS Thinkbox software available free

Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022

5 CG software updates you may have missed in July 2022

Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022

Download the free Modern Industrial Pack of 3D models

Kitbash industrial interiors with RenderCrate's set of over 400 modular parts. FBX format, for commercial use.

Thursday, July 28th, 2022

Chaos releases Chaos Vantage 1.8

Check out the new features in the real-time tool for exploring V-Ray scenes, like the new cloud system.

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Tutorial: design and model a creature with scales

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to sculpt a production-ready creature in ZBrush and Maya.

Saturday, July 16th, 2022

Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender

Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.

Friday, July 15th, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max

Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.

Thursday, July 7th, 2022

Kinetix releases Kinetix 1.5

Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2022