Maxon ships Cinema 4D R23
Major update to Cinema 4D adds new character animation tools, better UV editing, and integrates the $399 Magic Bullet Looks suite.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
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Eye candy: Maxon's IBC 2020 Cinema 4D demo reel
New round-up of the best C4D motion graphics and animation is a surreal, colourful two-minute trip.
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.90
Latest update to the open-source 3D app brings major changes to sculpting, rendering and simulation.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2021.2
Latest Max update adds new Smart Extrude system and Spline Chamfer modifier, nine more OSL shaders.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Create subtle performances for your animated characters
Master nuance in animation with ILM lead animator Ted Lister's new tutorials for Gnomon Workshop.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2021
Big update to the digital sculpting tool adds complete cloth creation and soft body dynamics toolset. Check out all the features here.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
Check out cool new motion design tool Cavalry 1.0
Now shipping: new procedural animation app blends 'the power of 3D with the ease of use of 2D'.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.2
Intuitive real-time visualisation tool gets new animation features, better water and vehicle paint materials.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Foundry ships Modo 14.1
3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.
Monday, July 27th, 2020
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
Epic Games will pay you $10,000 to learn Unreal Engine
New Unreal Fellowship program will pay VFX and games pros to do four weeks of online UE4 training.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020