CG Channel

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

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

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

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

Tuesday, April 28th, 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

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

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

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

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

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

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Check out the new features due in the animation software this year, like auto-rigging and retargeting.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Includes 50 new high-impact moves recorded specially by God of War stunt artist Eric Jacobus.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

Interesting collaboration tool for virtual production and VR syncs scene editing sessions across Maya, UE4 and Unity.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020

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