Allegorithmic launches Substance Database 2.0

Library of readymade Substances for use in Unity, UE4 and 3D tools now includes 650 PBR materials.

Friday, February 27th, 2015

Download 10 free Substance procedural materials

Get Arvin Villapando's new brick, rock and sidewalk materials, for use in Max, Maya, Modo, UDK or Unity.

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

Get The Comprehensive PBR Guide for free

Updated: Master physically based rendering with Allegorithmic's concise PDF guide. Part 2 out now.

Friday, January 30th, 2015

Download 60 free UE4 materials and 220 textures

Get a massive set of free assets used to create Unreal demo scene The Monolith. For commercial use.

Friday, January 23rd, 2015

Otoy unveils four new versions of OctaneRender

Updated: New video shows the GPU renderer inside Houdini. Nuke, MotionBuilder and UE4 to come.

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Xsens updates MVN inertial mocap line-up

Motion-capture suits and software redesigned to provide true VFX-quality data; price cut by up to 30%.

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6

Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.1

GPU-based renderer gets option to export render passes, new undo system, up to 30% speed boost.

Friday, September 26th, 2014

Side Effects releases Houdini Indie

Updated: new edition gives anyone making under $100K the full feature set of Houdini FX for $199/year.

Friday, August 8th, 2014

Epic Games funds Blender development

Game developer donates €10,000 to Blender dev fund in order to improve FBX export to Unreal Engine 4.

Monday, July 7th, 2014

The best of last week's CG news in brief

Read our five-minute digest, from Blender 2.71 and GPU support in Fabric Engine to Autodesk buying Shotgun.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2014

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 4.1

Games texturing tool gets new baking options and ability to group nodes. Eight new video tutorials, too.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs 2013

Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, November 7th, 2013