Gnomon ships 3D Scan and Retopology for Production

New nine-hour tutorial provides a detailed guide to generating animatable character meshes via photogrammetry.

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2

Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 1.0

New free Substance integration plugin for 3ds Max now out of beta and ready for use in production.

Friday, April 13th, 2018

AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS

Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.

Monday, April 9th, 2018

What smart studios look for when buying CG hardware

Advertorial: Nice Shoes CTO Robert Keske reveals what governs the award-winning studio's choice of new technology.

Monday, April 9th, 2018

Luxion ships KeyShot 7.3 plus new free KeyShot Viewer

Free standalone viewer lets non-users open and interact with scenes created in the renderer.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Master Environment Creation for VR Using Photogrammetry

Create a detailed, production-ready immersive environment inside Unity with Gnomon's step-by-step guide.

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Basefount ships Miarmy 6.2

Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Download E*D Films' free Scene Track exporter for Unity

Record gameplay in real time, then export the animation data in FBX format with this neat free add-on.

Sunday, April 1st, 2018

e-on ships Vue 2016 R5 and PlantFactory 2016 R5

Environment-creation software gets new LOD export options, better Ptex support. Plant generator gets new Flower node.

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap

See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

Eye candy: the new Fracture FX client reel

See people, buildings and vehicles explode spectacularly in the Maya demolition tool's greatest hits reel.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018