Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools' neat new TopoCopy system is 'first unique feature in UV mapping in years'.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
3ds max
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2021.3
Update to the 3D software adds new retopology tools and support for bloom effects in the viewport.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists
Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 30th, 2020
Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4
Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Luxion ships KeyShot 10.0
Renderer gets new Light Manager, better cloth and caustic effects. KeyShot Pro users get new animation and Smart Export tools.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Maxon releases Redshift for Blender and Metal in beta
Download the long-awaited Blender plugin and Metal edition of the GPU renderer for current Macs.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio
Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.
Monday, November 9th, 2020
Eye candy: Chaos Group's 2020 V-Ray showreel
See the best VFX and animation work created with V-Ray, plus tech breakdowns of the key projects.
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.1
Renderer gets new post effects framework, physically correct nested dielectrics, improvements to USD support and Arnold GPU.
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Check out fast 3ds Max cloth simulation plugin Dynamo
Deform Dynamics' real-time cloth simulation tool performs '10-100x faster' than Max's Cloth modifier.
Friday, October 9th, 2020
Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta
USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
KM-3D ships Smooth Boolean 2.0 for 3ds Max
Boolean modelling plugin's neat new Smooth Bridge modifier joins open edge loops of meshes, even if edge counts differ.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.30 for 3ds Max and Maya
New force tuning option in the fluid simulation app lets users 'mask' forces to control sims precisely.
Thursday, September 24th, 2020