How to create an undersea digital matte painting

Aaron Sims Company lead digital matte painter Didier Konings explains how he created this real production asset.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015

Download two free 3D characters from xoio-air

Get male and female 3D scanned characters in OBJ and MAX formats, both licensed for commercial use.

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

Video: the future of modelling in Maya

See some neat work-in-progress tech for sculpting with adaptive topology, recorded at Siggraph 2015.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

Luxion launches KeyShot plugins for Maya, Cinema 4D

Free add-ons let users access the renderer directly from their software or export BIP files without KeyShot.

Saturday, August 15th, 2015

Features planned for VPaint 1.5

See a list of new features planned for version 1.5 of the open-source app that creates vector animations that mimic 3D forms.

Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Autodesk launches Stingray game engine

New engine to ship on 19 August from $30/month, with suite of supporting middleware. Free to Maya LT users.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

Rui Batista releases PolyPaint 1.5 for Cinema 4D

Handy 3D paint tool lets C4D users import RGBA vertex colour data from apps like ZBrush, or export it to Unity.

Monday, July 20th, 2015

See Gnomon's Best of Term Winter 2015 award winners

Check out the best recent CG work created by students at the school, from FX to character modelling.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2015

Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015

Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Eye candy: See the best student CG work of 2015

Watch the winning entries from this year's CG Student Awards, chosen from over 200 leading CG schools.

Friday, July 3rd, 2015

E-on ships Vue Infinite 2015 and Vue xStream 2015

Updated: Features include a new NPR renderer, GoZ support. Free Personal Learning Edition out now.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2015

Get Christophe Desse's free 3D character models

Download some of the Naughty Dog artist's creations, including an OBJ/FBX Space Soldier and a ZTL male human head.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

Download Pablander's free Multi-Eye ZTool

Create customisable CG eyes with colour and surface detail with Pablo Munoz Gomez's neat ZBrush tool.

Monday, June 15th, 2015