Epic Games acquires facial capture specialist 3Lateral

Buyout of Epic's tech partner from its amazing GDC demos to boost work on digital humans in UE4.

Thursday, January 24th, 2019

NewTek ships LightWave 2019

Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

SpeedTree Cinema 8.2 ships

Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists

Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.

Friday, December 21st, 2018

Discover how to create AAA game art for virtual reality

Discover how First Contact Entertainment created VR shooter Firewall Zero Hour at Gnomon's free talk next week.

Monday, November 26th, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 12.2

Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Quixel releases Quixel Bridge 2018.5

Free app for exporting Megascans assets to other software gets live links to 3ds Max, Houdini, Toolbag.

Thursday, November 8th, 2018

Edit Blender scenes in VR/AR with new free tool BlenderXR

Place, edit and annotate assets in virtual and mixed reality with this neat open-source user interface.

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast

See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials

Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

Preflight prepares 3ds Max models for export to UE4

SiNi Software's new plugin automatically identifies missing textures and fixes doubled or flipped faces.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

SideFX ships Houdini 17

Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018

PlaySys ships Real IES 3.0

Newly updated lighting design app lets users create their own custom IES lights, including those with complex or asymmetric profiles.

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018