Download free Blender add-on Bystedt's Blender Baker

Updated: Neat add-on streamlines baking PBR textures inside Blender. Now supports thickness maps.

Sunday, September 10th, 2023

ArmorPaint 0.9 ships

Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.

Friday, September 8th, 2023

Tutorial: Introduction to Ziva VFX - Volume 1 and 2

Volume 2 now available: master the Maya soft tissue simulation tool with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive two-part guide.

Friday, September 8th, 2023

Maxon releases Cinebench 2024

Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

Unreal Engine 5.3: five key features for CG artists

Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.4

Big update to the digital sculpting app adds support for reference images while working in VR. Check out the other new features here.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2

Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

Check out free browser-based AI mocap tool Rokoko Vision

Successor to Rokoko Video lets users extract full-body animation from video captured on two cameras or smartphones. Still free for single-camera capture.

Monday, September 4th, 2023

Eye candy: Chaos's 2023 V-Ray VFX & Animation showreel

See the best new visual effects and motion graphics rendered with V-Ray - then check out technical breakdowns of the key projects.

Friday, September 1st, 2023

Radical launches Radical Live

New AI-based service extracts multi-actor motion data from video in real time, and streams it to Blender, Maya, Unity or UE5.

Friday, September 1st, 2023

Luxion buys Digizuite

KeyShot developer aims to provide users with a 'full-service design solution' though its buyout of the digital asset management provider.

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

Welcome to the new CG Channel!

We've updated the site to make it easier to use on mobiles and tablets. Let us know what you think!

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

Dimension 5 Techs launches D5 for Teams

New suite of collaboration features for users of D5 Render include simultaneous multi-user editing.

Tuesday, August 29th, 2023