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

SideFX ships Houdini 18.5

Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

Snappers unveils Snappers Wrinkles Designer

Crazy new Maya toolset will let you design wrinkles for 3D characters interactively and export to UE4.

Friday, October 16th, 2020

Download 70 free low-poly 3D plant models

Get 70 free real-time 3D models of temperate grasses and flowers, created by artist Erhan Yilmaz.

Friday, October 9th, 2020

Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta

USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.

Monday, October 5th, 2020

Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.2

Major update to the character animation app adds support for retargeting and camera animation.

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

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

Download over 500 free real-time 3D plants and buildings

Get games asset studio SilverTM's City Park Environment Collection free from the UE4 Marketplace.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 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

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