AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender

GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.

Thursday, June 8th, 2023

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0

Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2023

Apple unveils 2023 Mac Pro

See how the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro workstation stacks up against old Intel models in After Effects, Maya, Houdini and Photoshop.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023

Apple unveils the M2 Ultra

See how 'the world’s most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer' performs with CG apps like Maya, Octane and Photoshop.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023

Esri ships CityEngine 2023

Check out the new features in the procedural 3D city generation software, including better terrain sculpting and section rendering.

Monday, June 5th, 2023

iToo Software releases Forest Pack 8.2.2 for 3ds Max

Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.

Monday, June 5th, 2023

Epic Games releases RealityScan 1.1

Free iOS scanning app turns smartphone photos into 3D models. Check out its new features.

Saturday, June 3rd, 2023

Polycam gets new AI-based 360 Capture system

Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Unity releases Unity 2022 LTS

Check out the key features for CG artists in the game engine's new Long Term Support release, including the new water system.

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

MxTools releases FormCutter 3.0 for 3ds Max

Interesting hard surface modelling add-on gets support for real-time cuts for quick shape exploration.

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp Update 1

Check out the new features in the SketchUp edition of renderer, like cutaway rendering in V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Grease Pencil 3.0 is coming in Blender 4.0

Check out the changes planned for this major update to the open-source app's 2D animation toolset.

Wednesday, May 31st, 2023

Tutorial: Mech Illustration with Character & Story

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create 3D illustrations with a hand-drawn feel.

Wednesday, May 31st, 2023