Master the essentials of lighting and look development

Recreate realistic real-world materials in Maya and Redshift with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Monday, March 15th, 2021

Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2

Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.

Friday, March 12th, 2021

mGear team ships mGear 3.7

Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

Discover how to optimise games in Unreal Engine

Fix performance bottlenecks and optimise art assets in UE4 with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Thursday, March 4th, 2021

Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender

New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.

Monday, March 1st, 2021

Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU

See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.

Saturday, February 27th, 2021

Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity now free to all users

Houdini Engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine now free for larger studios, not just indie artists.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create

Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

Discover 10 key new features from Blender 2.92

Discover the most important new tools in the open-source 3D app, from geometry nodes to APIC sims.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

Hair Cards Tool for Max creates strip-based hair for games

Check out Gameloft character artist Mihail Lupu's neat new 3ds Max tool for creating fast-rendering hair.

Friday, February 19th, 2021

Get started with look development in Houdini

Take a crash course in look dev for VFX and animation with The Gnomon Workshop's latest tutorial.

Monday, February 15th, 2021

e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.1

Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

The 20 most popular Gnomon Workshop tutorials of 2020

Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021