Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

Sketchfab's models of the month: December 2020

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free game assets to a striking 3D portrait of Lou Reed.

Monday, January 4th, 2021

Basefount releases Animcraft

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2020

See the month's best new real-time 3D models, many downloadable for free, like this vintage instrument.

Monday, December 7th, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021

See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 10.0

3D clothing design tool gets new wrinkle-sculpting brush and much more customisable 3D avatars. Now rental-only.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4

Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Luxion ships KeyShot 10.0

Renderer gets new Light Manager, better cloth and caustic effects. KeyShot Pro users get new animation and Smart Export tools.

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020

Foundry ships Modo 14.2

3D modelling and rendering app gets intuitive new Rig Clay system for posing characters, plus support for Cryptomatte and USD export.

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.0

Neat next-gen animation tool aims to rethink character work for VFX and feature animation pipelines.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2020

Esri ships CityEngine 2020.1

Procedural city generation tool can now import assets in USD format for VFX work, and generate LODs automatically for Unreal Engine.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2020

Polycam turns your iPad Pro into a real-time LIDAR scanner

Updated - now on iPhone Pro too: neat $12 app builds up 3D scans of objects as you walk around them.

Thursday, November 5th, 2020