Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.1.4

New version of the renderer adds native Apple Silicon support and improves USD workflow. 3ds Max, C4D and Maya plugins updated.

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Q&A: Marvelous Designer specialist Michele Ahn

[Sponsored] Discover how the 3D clothing design software helps the Tippett Studio artist stay creative.

Friday, November 18th, 2022

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.1

New features in the game engine range from updates to Nanite and Lumen to AI-based animation tools.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 12

3D clothing design tool gets option to edit, blend and retime simulation caches, plus improved retopology.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

Nvidia releases Omniverse Create 2022.3 in beta

Major update to Omniverse's scene layout app adds new physics features and support for MaterialX.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2022

AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.5 for Blender

Free GPU renderer gets new bevel shader, better interactive rendering. New Maya and Houdini versions also available.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Tutorial: Sculpting the Human Skull in ZBrush

Create an anatomically accurate skull with The Gnomon Workshop's new introductory ZBrush tutorial.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

Luxion ships KeyShot 11.3

Check out the latest features in the rendering and technical animation software, and the changes to the separate KeyShot Web Viewer.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022

Autodesk releases USD for 3ds Max 0.3

Third beta of the plugin adds a USD Stage Object for referencing entire USD scenes inside 3ds Max.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

Download Lightmap's free set of 25 studio HDRI maps

Recreate real studio lighting in visualisations and portfolio renders. EXR format, for commercial use.

Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Tutorial: Creating Creature Fur Using XGen & Arnold

Create production-quality grooms with Maya's XGen toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Monday, October 24th, 2022

Faceware Technologies unveils Faceware Portal

New AI-based online service extracts facial animation from video footage without manual setup.

Thursday, October 20th, 2022