Maxon releases public beta of Redshift RT

New hybrid rasterisation/ray tracing mode provides a high-quality real-time preview of Redshift scenes.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

hdRstr ray traces thousands of area lights in real time

Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

New Blender 3.0 release date announced

Milestone update to the open-source 3D software now due for a stable release early in December.

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021

Sketchfab's models of the month: August 2021

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from samurai skaters to free downloadable vehicle models.

Wednesday, September 1st, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse

Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2021

Omniverse Audio2Face now supports Reallusion characters

Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.

Saturday, August 7th, 2021

Autodesk ships Maya 2022.1

3D animation software gets new global search feature, tools for authoring interactive tutorials, and updates to the deformer system.

Thursday, July 29th, 2021

The FreeMoCap Project: markerless mocap for $100?

Promising open-source project aims to track bodies, fingers and faces on two consumer webcams.

Monday, July 26th, 2021

Foundry ships Modo 15.1

Modelling and rendering app gets new Curve Booleans system, plus updates to scene testing, the mPath renderer, and USD support.

Friday, July 23rd, 2021

Epic Games buys Sketchfab

Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX

Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.

Friday, July 16th, 2021

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.2 for Blender and Maya

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.

Monday, July 12th, 2021