Discover how to create photorealistic 3D props

Master industry-standard modelling and shading workflows in The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances

Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Sneak peek: Chaos Group's R&D work on V-Ray's VRayMtl

Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021

Discover how a Gnomon Workshop tutorial is created

Follow instructor Eric Keller as he creates Introduction to Maya 2020, his detailed new Gnomon tutorial.

Friday, January 1st, 2021

AXYZ design ships anima 4.1

3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.

Wednesday, December 30th, 2020

Basefount releases Animcraft

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini

See all the new features in the Houdini edition of renderer, from ACEScg to updates to VRayDirt.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.1 VS and RS

UV unwrapping tools' neat new TopoCopy system is 'first unique feature in UV mapping in years'.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

Download the project files for Epic Games' Meerkat demo

Get the rigged 3D characters from Epic's beautiful new Unreal Engine demo free in Maya and UE4 format.

Thursday, December 10th, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021

See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists

Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 30th, 2020