Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.18
Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
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Whip your reel into shape at demo reel boot camp
Get free tips on creating a winning reel from recruiters at ILM, The Mill, Infinity Ward and DreamWorks at Gnomon next week.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Mario Baldi releases Edge Flow 2.0 for Modo
Handy Modo add-on automatically 'relaxes' edge loops to create clean, animation-ready topology.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Get games careers advice from Halo 5 creator 343 Industries
Get career tips and showreel advice at Gnomon's free event for aspiring games artists next week.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
NewTek ships LightWave 2019
Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
SpeedTree Cinema 8.2 ships
Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2019 and Maya LT 2019
Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.
Saturday, January 12th, 2019
Ephere ships Ornatrix V6 for 3ds Max
Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.4 and launches iClone Open
New open Python API will let developers create custom tools for the real-time animation software.
Sunday, January 6th, 2019
Realsoft ships Realsoft 3D 8
One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.
Friday, December 28th, 2018
Uppercut launches U-Render in early access
Hotly tipped real-time Cinema 4D PBR render engine gets first paid release. Version 1.0 due next year.
Monday, December 17th, 2018
Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
Friday, November 30th, 2018