Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.2

Intuitive real-time visualisation tool gets new animation features, better water and vehicle paint materials.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

Download 37 free 3D models from 3D Model Haven

Get free props and environment models in FBX and Blender format with PBR textures. CC0 licence.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant

The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Krita wins Epic MegaGrant

Digital painting tool becomes the latest open-source CG app to be backed by Epic Games, winning $25,000 to improve QA testing.

Thursday, December 19th, 2019

Epic Games releases free TwinMotion update

Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets.

Monday, August 19th, 2019

Eye candy: SideFX's 2019 Houdini customer reel

Check out the best new movies, ads and cinematics created using Houdini, then follow our links to the VFX breakdowns.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 2

Renderer gets new toon shader, debug shading, memory tracking tools, and updates to V-Ray GPU.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Quixel supports the MDL material format in Megascans

Popular library of real-world scan data adopts the cross-application material format supported in V-Ray and Unreal Studio.

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.1 in beta

New C#-scriptable render pipeline and node-based shader editor, but no more native Substance support.

Thursday, January 11th, 2018

Download Unity Labs' free texture de-lighting tool

Neat Unity add-on removes baked-in lighting from textures generated using photogrammetry software.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2017

Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2017 product roadmap

Features to include new cinematics toolsets, a scriptable rendering pipeline, and a new C# job system.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

Adobe chooses V-Ray as core renderer for Project Felix

V-Ray chosen as render engine for new visualisation tool aimed at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

Unity revamps subscriptions in reply to user complaints

Updated: Unity Plus subscribers get option to turn off the splash screen; users of the free Personal edition can customise it.

Friday, June 17th, 2016