Check out the new features in Blender 2.79

Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

Get Creating First-Person Shooter Animations for Games

Master the skills to work on a AAA shooter with Call of Duty veteran Bill Buckley's new Gnomon tutorial.

Monday, September 4th, 2017

Get Unity's Photogrammetry Workflow ebook for free

Master best practices for capturing real-time assets for games with this detailed, practical 96-page guide.

Sunday, August 13th, 2017

Nurulize unveils Atom View and Nu Design

Amazing new VR toolset lets artists stream complex VFX assets into game engines via point clouds.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Watch the best CG shorts from Siggraph 2017

Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Autodesk ceases sales of Gameware middleware

Scaleform, Navigation, Beast and HumanIK sales stopped on 12 July. Existing users get final source code of some tools.

Wednesday, July 19th, 2017

Santhosh Koneru: a visual effects director's progress

The Blur Studio artist discusses his award-winning short, The Legion, and new CG project The Vikings.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017

Sneak peek: Unity 2017.1's powerful new cinematics tools

Watch 30 minutes of footage of the Timeline editor, Cinemachine 2.0 procedural camera system, and 16K video recorder.

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

iPi Soft releases iPi Mocap Studio 3.6

Latest updates to markerless mocap tool permit real-time tracking via Kinect game sensors.

Monday, June 12th, 2017

Faceware Technologies releases Faceware Live 2.5

Real-time markerless facial mocap system gets new tools for fine-tuning animations, built-in preview characters.

Friday, May 26th, 2017

Get Epic Games' free volume modelling plugin for UE4

Download this nifty new tool to paint volumetric objects directly in VR, complete with fluid velocities.

Monday, May 8th, 2017

Paste models between 3D apps with this neat free tool

Paste geometry and UV maps between 3D packages with Oliver Hotz's OD_CopyPasteExternal.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

Silicon Studio ships Xenko 2.0

Rendering middleware firm's 'next-level C# game engine' now shipping commercially, but still free to individuals and indie studios.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017