Next Limit ships RealFlow 10.5

Standalone edition of the fluid simulation software gets a new Macro daemon to mimic the look of high-speed liquid photography.

Monday, June 3rd, 2019

Learn to create complex patterns in Substance Designer

Master workflows for detailing environment models with Santa Monica Studio artist Nate Stephens' new Gnomon tutorial.

Monday, May 27th, 2019

PSD to 3D turns Photoshop sketches into 3D scenes

Convert your 2D drawings into animatable 3D meshes in Maya with e→d films' neat new tool.

Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

Esri ships CityEngine 2019.0

Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation

Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019

New tool Masterpiece Motion lets you rig characters in VR

Intuitive new app lets users place bones and paint skin weights in VR, using an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

Epic Games buys Twinmotion

Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Learn the art of lighting for animation

Master key skills in Maya, Arnold and Nuke with Sony Pictures Imageworks lighting TD Alex Corll's new video tutorial.

Saturday, May 11th, 2019

Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Google Cloud launches Zync Render 2.0

Online rendering service now offers up to 48,000 CPU cores per user, new GPU rendering options.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2019

Cubic Motion ships Persona

Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

Discover how to create a CG superhero animation for VFX

Supergirl animation supervisor Elaina Scott's Gnomon tutorial takes you from previs to final shot.

Friday, April 26th, 2019

e-on software ships Vue R2 and PlantFactory R2

Vue gets updates to EcoSystems, the cloud tools and the Path Tracer; PlantFactory gets interactive path traced previews.

Thursday, April 25th, 2019