The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists

Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.

Friday, December 21st, 2018

Edit Blender scenes in VR/AR with new free tool BlenderXR

Place, edit and annotate assets in virtual and mixed reality with this neat open-source user interface.

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR 1.5

Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.

Friday, September 7th, 2018

Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2019 for Unreal Engine

New integration promises UE4 users GPU-based light field baking and support for ORBX scenes.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Sneak peek: rendering Corona materials in V-Ray for 3ds Max

Upcoming V-Ray Next hotfix to let users render Corona materials directly and convert common Corona textures.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering

V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

BabylonDreams releases vrscene GUI

Handy new utility for editing V-Ray .vrscene files lets users adjust render settings on the fly or split jobs into batches.

Friday, May 25th, 2018

Facebook introduces glTF 2.0 support for 'richer 3D posts'

Posts now display 3D models interactively, with PBR materials, You can export directly from Modo.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads

Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.

Sunday, December 24th, 2017

Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists

Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

Allegorithmic unveils Substance Painter 2017.4

Texture painting app gets support for layer instancing, live link to UE4 and 20 new procedural materials.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

SideFX releases Houdini 16.5

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017