Get Quake II with real-time ray tracing and PBR materials

Now available to download: Nvidia updates the 1997 shooter for real-time path tracing on Turing GPUs.

Monday, June 10th, 2019

Ryan Kittleson releases Ryan's Tools 1.3 for ZBrush

Handy free plugin fixes common niggles when sculpting, painting or working with cameras in ZBrush.

Sunday, June 9th, 2019

10bit FX ships Notch 0.9.22

Real-time VFX and motion graphics tools get new GPU-agnostic hybrid ray tracing system, plus native support for Substance materials.

Friday, June 7th, 2019

Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut

Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.

Thursday, June 6th, 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

Alexey Vanzhula releases DM 1.5 for Houdini

Hard surface toolkit's new classic polygon modelling environment makes workflow in Houdini more like other DCC apps.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro

Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Intel unveils HdOSPRay and OpenVKL

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Sketchfab's models of the month: May 2019

See the best real-time 3D models on Sketchfab this month, including some incredible Pokémon fan art.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

IDV ships SpeedTree 8.4

Games edition of the tree-generation tool gets new wind animation algorithm, better texture atlas generation. Smaller updates to the Cinema edition.

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

Discover how DICE LA created Battlefield V's environments

See how the game's photorealistic environments were created at Gnomon this Thursday, or watch the talk free online.

Tuesday, May 28th, 2019

Learn to create complex patterns in Substance Designer

Master workflows for detailing environment models with Santa Monica Studio artist Nate Stephens' new Gnomon tutorial.

Monday, May 27th, 2019

The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to ZBrush

Updated to cover ZBrush 2019: Master digital sculpting with Madeleine Spencer's detailed 21-hour training video.

Monday, May 27th, 2019