Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Get Paragon UE4 character and environment assets free

Updated with new free assets. Download 39 characters and 1,500 environment assets from Epic Games' MOBA.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

AXYZ design ships anima 3.5

3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation plugin's new 'alive' technology synchronises cameras and geometry with the host app.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

Epic Games releases free Shotgun integration for UE4

New plugin integrates UE4 with the production-tracking system. Includes a Maya FBX exporter for asset review.

Friday, August 31st, 2018

New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4

Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

Polywink creates blendshapes and rigs for any head model

Digital doubles firm Eisko's new online service also readies 3D avatars for animation on iPhone X.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Epic to give UE4 Marketplace creators 88% of product sales

Up from 70% before - and applied retroactively to every sale made since the store opened in 2014.

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

Sketchfab launches its own online 3D model store

Now officially out of beta. Get 10% off purchases with Sketchfab's discount code until 4 July 2018.

Friday, June 29th, 2018

Google open-sources Seurat

Updated: Free tech converts offline renders to 3D geometry for use in mobile VR. Has exporters for Maya, Unity, UE4 - and now 3ds Max.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

PipelineFX ships Qube! 7

Renderfarm management tool gets fast new Postgres-based backend architecture. Supervisor licences now free to download and use.

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Allegorithmic updates Substance Source library

Updated: Online library hosts 1,000+ materials in Substance format, designed for PBR workflows. Download some for free.

Thursday, June 7th, 2018

Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering

V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2

Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.

Thursday, April 26th, 2018