Unity 6 Preview: five key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the new features in the latest version of Unity, from improvements to rendering to new generative AI animation tools.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

Download free Unity ebooks for technical and VFX artists

Free PDF guides provide overviews of the game engine's key toolsets, with downloadable examples.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Get Unity and Epic Games' new free game art e-books

Download detailed guides to 2D game development in Unity and MetaHuman Creator's facial solver.

Friday, May 6th, 2022

Discover 10 key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.2

Read our pick of the new features in the game engine, from ray traced reflections to real-time compositing.

Monday, December 21st, 2020

Unity reveals 2021 roadmap

See the new tools for games artists due in Unity 2020 LTS, 2021.1 and 2021.2 - plus a bonus for anyone with a free Personal subscription.

Friday, August 14th, 2020

Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1

Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2020

Download Unity's free digital asset packs for The Heretic

Updated: download a new shape-shifting 'VFX character' from the eye-catching Unity tech demo.

Thursday, May 21st, 2020

Download the new free Unigine Community Edition

Powerful enterprise-grade real-time 3D engine now available free for indie games and VFX projects.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

RayFire Studios releases RayFire for Unity

New Unity edition of the popular 3ds Max destruction tool lets users destroy 3D geometry at runtime.

Monday, July 1st, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Unity 2018.3 ships

Update adds support for nested prefabs, new particle and terrain tools. Visual Effect Graph and GPU lightmapper out as tech previews.

Thursday, December 13th, 2018

Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast

See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2

Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.

Thursday, July 12th, 2018