Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1

3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021

Eye candy: Epic Games' new 'Slay' Unreal Engine demo

Watch the action-packed CG short, then download its fully rigged and animated lead character for free.

Wednesday, September 8th, 2021

Unity Technologies cuts price of ArtEngine by 80%

Cost of a basic subscription to the AI-based material-processing app falls from $1,140 to $228 per year.

Friday, September 3rd, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

D5 Render 1.9 ships

Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.

Friday, May 28th, 2021

Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0

Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021

Glassbox Technologies ships DragonFly 2.5

See what's new in the virtual camera system for Maya, Unity and UE4 and in its iOS companion app.

Friday, April 30th, 2021

Motiva ships Layama 1.5

Datasmith creator's unusual tool for turning 3ds Max, Blender and UE4 scenes into 'pseudo VR' gets new option to add interactive hotspots.

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

Download 85 free meshes of Australian trees and rocks

Get Andrew Svanberg Hamilton's Rural Australia scan-based assets free for use with Unreal Engine.

Sunday, April 25th, 2021

Free Cesium for Unreal plugin creates a virtual Earth in UE4

New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Discover how to optimise games in Unreal Engine

Fix performance bottlenecks and optimise art assets in UE4 with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Thursday, March 4th, 2021

Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity now free to all users

Houdini Engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine now free for larger studios, not just indie artists.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

Eye candy: the new Unreal Engine next-gen games reel

Check out the gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 and 5 titles due out for PS5 and Xbox Series X in 2021.

Monday, January 4th, 2021