Reallusion releases Character Creator 2.0

Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.

Friday, March 24th, 2017

Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16

Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

Microsoft buys Simplygon

Intelligent polygon reduction and LOD technology used on games like The Witcher 3 to form part of firm's '3D For Everyone' strategy.

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

IKinema ships LiveAction 3.0

Real-time mocap streaming and retargeting system for UE4 gets automated bone mapping and support for custom mocap systems.

Monday, January 16th, 2017

Graphine releases Granite SDK 4.0

Games texture-streaming system gets mipmap streaming, better workflow with version control tools.

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6 and EditorVR in beta

Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Gnomon releases essential guide to game animation

Master vital UE4 and Maya skills with Call of Duty artist Bill Buckley's Creating Game Ready Animations for Production.

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

Neoglyphic Entertainment releases NeoFur for Unity

Promising real-time fur system with self-shadowing and physics now available for Unity as well as UE4.

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

Marmoset releases Toolbag 3

Now shipping: Big update to the rendering toolkit adds animation support, real-time GI, texture baking, and Unity and UE4 export.

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers for CG artists

See over 50 money-saving offers, including Adobe, Autodesk, Allegorithmic, Marvelous Designer and Next Limit.

Thursday, November 24th, 2016

Unity Technologies reveals 2017 Unity product roadmap

See all the new features due in Unity 5.6 and beyond - including a free integration of OctaneRender.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

IKinema releases Action 2.0 for MotionBuilder

Mocap solving and retargeting plugin's new ACP tech auto-fixes common errors like foot slippage.

Saturday, October 29th, 2016

Neoglyphic Entertainment ships NeoFur 2.0 for UE4

Real-time hair and fur plugin now supports motion blur, import of NURBS curves from DCC tools.

Monday, October 10th, 2016