Apple unveils the iMac Pro

New top-of-the-range graphics workstation will feature 5K display, up to 18 CPU cores and 128GB RAM. Existing iMacs also updated.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

Serif releases Affinity Photo for iPad

Pro image-editing tool gets $30 iOS edition. All the key features of the Mac version, GPU-accelerated, and touch-optimised.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

Download 12 free HDR images of industrial environments

Get Philip Modin's 14-megapixel HDRs of factories and workshops. EXR format, for commercial use.

Sunday, June 4th, 2017

Get Midge Sinnaeve's free 8K landscape texture pack

Download 10 varied landscapes, each with 8K height, flow and normal maps, plus OBJ meshes. Commercial use.

Sunday, June 4th, 2017

3DtoAll ships MaxToBlender

Export 3ds Max scenes to Blender for rendering 'in two clicks'. Converts V-Ray materials to their Cycles equivalents automatically.

Friday, June 2nd, 2017

Gnomon releases Pre-Visualization for Film

Master modern previs workflows with ex-20th Century Fox previs supervisor Jason Michael Hall's essential guide.

Friday, June 2nd, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Modo

Update improves GPU rendering, adds support for Arnold's alShader, OSL, scenes created in other versions of V-Ray.

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

Sketchfab's models of the month: May 2017

See the month's best real-time 3D models, including this amazing, fully animated VR avatar of Björk.

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

Deep FX ships Deep Rising FX 1.2 for LightWave

Affordable new particle-based fluid simulation plugin adds support for Bullet dynamics, OBJ mesh export.

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray software development kit

VRay AppSDK is intended to accelerate penetration of V-Ray into new markets: from augmented reality to bath design.

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

Sneak peek: Affinity Photo 1.6

Now available in public beta: pro-grade $50 image-editing tool gets toggleable 'light UI' for layout work; freehand stroke stabilisation.

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

DGDM releases SLiB | Match

Handy new Maya plugin automatically creates a virtual camera matching the perspective of any photographic backplate.

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

ActionVFX releases 15 free burn mark textures

Download 15 black-and-white textures to complement explosions in VFX shots. Commercial use.

Monday, May 29th, 2017