See the 10 hottest new features due in Blender in 2018

Read the Blender Foundation's pick of the top dev projects, from the Eevee PBR viewport renderer to 'Animation 2020'.

Thursday, January 4th, 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

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.18

Game engine gets support for Google's ARCore AR system, better lightmapping and media playback.

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.3

Updated: Autodesk discusses how the new Fluids simulation toolset stacks up against Bifröst in Maya.

Wednesday, October 4th, 2017

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2017's technical papers

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from cutting-edge fluid sims to ways to model tentacles.

Monday, June 19th, 2017

Silicon Studio ships Xenko 2.0

Rendering middleware firm's 'next-level C# game engine' now shipping commercially, but still free to individuals and indie studios.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Silicon Studio to release Xenko game engine commercially

Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.

Friday, February 24th, 2017

Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16

Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

Graphine releases Granite SDK 4.0

Games texture-streaming system gets mipmap streaming, better workflow with version control tools.

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers for CG artists

See over 50 money-saving offers, including Adobe, Autodesk, Allegorithmic, Marvelous Designer and Next Limit.

Thursday, November 24th, 2016

Triumph releases Blend4Web 16.08

Toolset for turning Blender scenes into interactive web apps gets improved Normal Editor, more shading options.

Thursday, September 1st, 2016

The best new CG software from Siggraph 2016

We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016

The Foundry releases Modo 10.1

Now shipping: Latest Modo 10 Series update adds cool procedural modelling system. Plays nicely with MeshFusion, too.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016