Toolchefs updates free open beta of Atoms Unreal
New UE4 plugin for Atoms Crowd promises to create large real-time crowd sims on consumer PCs.
Saturday, August 8th, 2020
Alembic
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1
Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Otoy ships Sculptron Alpha 2
Latest free build of Otoy's new tool for sculpting animation caches speeds up playback 'about 10x' and adds a readymade toon material.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5
Real-time gaseous fluid simulator gets neat new GPU particle system for finer, wispier smoke effects.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
Autodesk ships Bifrost for Maya 2.1
Sizeable update to the multiphysics plugin adds new scene geometry queries, better Alembic support.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 5
The next generation of V-Ray is now out of beta, and available to buy. Check out the new features in Chaos Group's powerful renderer.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 3.4
See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 4.8 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the 3ds Max edition of the shattering and rigid body dynamics plugin.
Friday, May 15th, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
e-on software launches PlantCatalog
PlantFactory creator launches new set of procedural 3D plants for use in DCC apps and game engines.
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Check out Muhammad Etman's Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool 2.0
FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Otoy unveils Sculptron
Check out this new GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches or converting them to volumes, available as a free public alpha.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019