5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021

Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Discover how to create complex vegetation for games

Create trees and grasses for use in Unreal Engine with Naughty Dog artist Peyton Varney's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

Monday, December 27th, 2021

Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists

Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2021

Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library

New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender

Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Master cinematic production techniques in Unreal Engine

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create game cinematic's using UE4's Sequencer.

Monday, December 20th, 2021

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2

Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.3

3D modeling and rendering tool gets Per Viewport Filtering options, further updates to Smart Extrude.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021

See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021

Unity acquires SyncSketch

Games tools firm buys artist-friendly browser-based shot review system used on Oscar-nominated animated feature Over the Moon.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021

Otoy unveils Octane 2022

Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021