Graphine releases Granite for Unity 5

Use 'hundreds of 8K textures' in your real-time apps with the newly updated texture-streaming system.

Thursday, October 1st, 2015

Sneak peek: Houdini 15

Updated: See the new crowd sim and simulation slicing options, plus the new Principled PBR shader.

Monday, September 28th, 2015

DAZ 3D ships Victoria 7

Popular stock figure gets new facial rig, plus OpenSubdiv and UDIM support to increase compatibility with other 3D apps.

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 9

Big update to UV unwrapping tool adds neat brush-based workflows for optimising UVs; UDIM support and Lua scripting.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Gnomon releases Texturing Environments with Mari

DreamWorks veteran Jessica Canter's new 150-minute tutorial provides a broad-based guide to environment work.

Friday, May 15th, 2015

The best new software from NAB 2015

We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel readers: from VFX software to plugins & pipeline apps.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

Check out the new features in mental ray 3.13

New GI engine, AO pass, support for deep compositing and UDIM - and updatable separately to your 3D app.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

The Foundry announces Modo 901

Price of an individual licence up $300, but MeshFusion comes free. See the new modelling, UV and rendering tools here.

Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3

Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.

Friday, April 3rd, 2015

Next Limit releases Maxwell Render 3.1

Physically based renderer adds spotlights, OpenVDB and UDIM support, smart selective sampling.

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

Amplify Creations releases Multi-Tile UV Bake Tool

Inexpensive 3ds Max plugin speeds up the process of baking multi-tile textures for Mari, Mudbox or ZBrush.

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Side Effects releases Houdini 14

Check out the new crowd pipeline, grooming tools, revamped UI and spectacular multiphysics system.

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

The Foundry releases Modo Indie and Marie Indie

Licensed for commercial work, aimed at indie games artists, and priced at just $300 and $150 a pop.

Friday, December 12th, 2014