Autodesk to end maintenance plans and multi-user subs

Maintenance updates to old perpetual licences of tools like 3ds Max and Maya to end in May 2021.

Friday, February 28th, 2020

iCube R&D Group ships MultiScatter 1.5 for 3ds Max

Scattering plugin gets improved object painting and distribution, plus option to scatter V-Ray Lights.

Thursday, February 27th, 2020

Master the art of creating a photorealistic interior scene

Create interiors for VFX work with Digital Domain lighting lead Adrien Vallecilla's new Gnomon tutorial.

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for SketchUp Update 2

Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

e-on software launches PlantCatalog

PlantFactory creator launches new set of procedural 3D plants for use in DCC apps and game engines.

Thursday, February 13th, 2020

Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, February 6th, 2020

Autodesk to raise price of multi-user subscriptions

Cost of multi-user subs to 3ds Max and Maya to go up around 14%; M&E Collection up around 33%.

Thursday, January 23rd, 2020

Shoot and edit better video reference for animation

See Method Studios' Sarah Arduini set out her character animation workflow in Gnomon's new tutorial.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019

Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.

Sunday, January 12th, 2020

Ephere ships Ornatrix C4D 1.0

New Cinema 4D edition of the popular hair, fur and feather simulation plugin works with both Arnold and Redshift out of the box.

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

Quixel ships Bridge 2019.5

Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 5.0 for Cinema 4D

Popular smoke and fire simulation software now available for Cinema 4D as well as 3ds Max and Maya.

Wednesday, December 18th, 2019

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.

Sunday, December 15th, 2019