2020 CGarchitect rendering survey shows trends in arch viz

V-Ray and Corona top list of most popular architectural renderers, but use of Twinmotion, Enscape and UE4 also rising.

Thursday, September 24th, 2020

Wysilab wins Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra

Money will help fund development of an Unreal Engine live link plugin for the terrain generation software.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020

Rokoko launches Smartgloves

Neat $995 inertial mocap gloves can be used to stream hand and finger tracking data live to apps like Maya, Blender, Unity and UE4.

Thursday, September 17th, 2020

Maxon awarded $200,000 Epic MegaGrant

Money will fund development of a Cineware-style live link between Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine.

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

Nvidia unveils Omniverse Machinima

Upcoming app will let users create 3D animations based on games assets using new AI-driven tools.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020

Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.

Friday, August 28th, 2020

Unity Technologies files for IPO

Unity has 1.5 million users and is used to create over half the games released, but the firm still made a loss of $163.2 million last year.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0

Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.

Monday, August 24th, 2020

Download KitBash3D's free Neo City buildings kit

Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Check out neat new procedural tree toolset GrowInfinite

Set of 37 HDAs generates detailed tree growth animations in Houdini or Houdini Engine-compatible apps and game engines.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.2

Intuitive real-time visualisation tool gets new animation features, better water and vehicle paint materials.

Tuesday, August 11th, 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

Reallusion ships July 2020 updates to digital human tools

Check out the new features in Character Creator 3.3, iClone 7.8 and the SkinGen Premium plugin.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2020