Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles

Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

Chaos Group releases Project Lavina Beta 0.4

New tool for real-time ray traced previews of V-Ray scenes gets new animation editor, physical camera.

Thursday, July 9th, 2020

See Blender's Cycles renderer running in the Houdini viewport

Nifty work from Tangent Animation makes Cycles a Hydra delegate in Houdini's Solaris look dev toolset.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.0 VS and RS

UV unwrapping and packing tools get Photoshop-style system for distributing UV islands, new autosave feature.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2020

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Tungsten Drop 4

Check out the changes to the presets system in the latest update to the real-time lighting design tool.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Get CG software for free during the coronavirus outbreak

Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

Arseniy Korablev releases Teya Conceptor

Unusual concept sculpting tool formerly known as Polybrush gets streamlined new UI, macOS edition.

Thursday, March 12th, 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

Unity 2019.3 ships

Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2019.1 VS and RS

UV unwrapping tools for DCC work and product design now run on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.

Friday, December 6th, 2019

The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists

Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.

Friday, November 29th, 2019

NewTek ships LightWave 2019

Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019