Sketchfab's models of the month: June 2021

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free characters to entire miniature animated worlds.

Friday, July 2nd, 2021

To NFT or not to NFT?

Sales of digital art via NFTs divide opinion in the CG community. We spoke to artists and financial experts about the pros and cons.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU

Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Get neat free photogrammetry app PhotoCatch

New app based on Apple's Object Capture API turns photos into textured OBJ or USDZ models.

Monday, June 28th, 2021

Luxion ships KeyShot 10.2

Rendering and technical animation software gets new automated mesh simplification tool, and updates to the material library.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2021

Sketchfab's models of the month: May 2021

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from cute cats to free downloadable characters, creatures and cars.

Tuesday, June 1st, 2021

Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0

Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021

Isotropix ships Clarisse 5.0

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

3ds Max Indie and Maya Indie now available in Latin America

See the full list of countries where indie artists can get lower-priced 3ds Max and Maya subscriptions.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021

See the 2021 Blender roadmap

Check out the major features coming up in the open-source 3D software in this year's Blender 2.93 and Blender 3.0 releases.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Check out Nvidia's RTXDI and RTXGI GPU ray tracing demos

Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI.

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Omniverse Machinima and Audio2Face to enter beta

Nvidia's apps for remixing game assets and generating facial animation from audio files due in open beta this week.

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

Get 1,000+ free 3D models of objects from Polish museums

Download 3D models of sculptures and household objects under a CC0 licence. Formats include OBJ, glTF and Blender.

Sunday, April 11th, 2021