Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates

Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Review: Nvidia Titan RTX

Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

QuadSpinner ships Gaea

Hotly tipped next-gen terrain design tool gets official release. The Community edition is free, and licensed for commercial work.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1

Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

Master Creating Assets for Games using Photogrammetry

EA DICE artist Guilherme Rambelli's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial details current industry workflows.

Thursday, August 9th, 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

Download Reactor 2.0 for free

WSL's neat package manager for Fusion now supports DaVinci Resolve - and restores features missing from its own Fusion toolset.

Wednesday, May 23rd, 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

Videos: See Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing in action

Updated: neat Star Wars short shows the real-time effects possible in UE4 with this new extension to DX12.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

QuadSpinner releases Gaea in early access

Hotly tipped terrain generation tool mixes powerful procedural features with artist-friendly direct sculpting.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018

See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017

Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.

Sunday, December 24th, 2017

Download Eisko's free rigged model of a human head

Updated: Get this photorealistic female head based on scan data. Now rigged and ready to animate.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017

Autodesk ships Flame 2018.3

Fourth update to Flame this year adds 360° viewing mode for VR, new Motion Warp tracking system, improved waveform monitoring.

Friday, October 27th, 2017