Creators of Pixar and Disney's hair tech win Academy Awards

Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021

The 20 most popular Gnomon Workshop tutorials of 2020

Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

Filter Forge 10.0 ships

Tool for authoring Photoshop filters and converting images into PBR texture maps gets new projects system, and new lower pricing.

Friday, January 15th, 2021

Basefount releases Animcraft

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

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

Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021

See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists

Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Quixel ships Mixer 2020.1.6

Free material authoring tool gets system for exporting layer masks to DCC apps and game engines, plus 65 new bundled Smart Materials.

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4

Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Epic Games becomes minority investor in SideFX

Industry giant takes stake in the Houdini developer, but no changes to the product roadmap expected.

Monday, November 16th, 2020

Which CG applications support Apple's new M1 chips?

Discover which 3D, image-editing and rendering apps will support the first Apple Silicon processors when they ship next week.

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5

Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs

New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020