Reallusion previews SkinGen

Neat new skin-generation toolset for Character Creator generates detailed human skin complete with pores, wrinkles, blemishes and hair.

Monday, June 1st, 2020

Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0

SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.

Monday, May 18th, 2020

Reallusion wins Epic MegaGrant

Game tools developer wins funding from Epic Games. Its iClone Unreal Live Link is free to indie users.

Monday, May 18th, 2020

AMD unveils Radeon Pro VII and Infinity Fabric Link Bridge

Check out AMD's new top-of-the-range workstation GPU and its answer to Nvidia's NVLink Bridge.

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

Faceware Technologies launches Faceware Studio

Next-gen replacement for the old Faceware Live mocap system adds neat new 'Motion Effects' for tuning facial solves.

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max

Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

EmberGen is now in beta

JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.

Monday, May 4th, 2020

Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1

Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

NewTek ships LightWave 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Otoy and JangaFX team up to create EmberGen FX

New integrated version of the EmberGen real-time gaseous fluid simulator coming to OctaneRender.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

See the new features due in Megascans and Quixel Mixer

Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

Golaem ships Golaem 7.3

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020