Epic Games buys Twinmotion

Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Cubic Motion ships Persona

Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

New Nvidia driver brings true DXR ray tracing to older GPUs

Free driver update extends DXR support on selected Pascal and Volta GPUs, including the GeForce 1060 to 1080 Ti.

Friday, April 12th, 2019

IKinema releases Orion 2.0

Low-cost full-body mocap system based around HTC Vive hardware gets new 'system health tracker' to monitor data quality automatically.

Monday, April 8th, 2019

Foundry ships Modo 13.0

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Watch Rebirth, Quixel's stunning photorealistic short

The 90-second sci-fi clip was made using real-world scans of Iceland, compiled and rendered in UE4.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

Otoy releases first preview build of OctaneRender 2019

Support for Nvidia RTX hardware-accelerated ray tracing provides 'up to 7.5x' rendering speed boost.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

The Heretic demo showcases realistic digital humans in Unity

New tech demo is a 'first attempt' at rendering photorealistic real-time characters in the game engine.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

Review: Nvidia Titan RTX

Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo

The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Master environment art workflows for videogames

Get started with Naughty Dog artist Martin Teichmann's new series of videos for The Gnomon Workshop.

Saturday, March 16th, 2019

Shotgun gets new integrations for After Effects, Jira, Unity

New After Effects and Jira Bridge plugins for the production tracking system due out at GDC next week.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019

Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.

Thursday, February 14th, 2019