Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Winter 2023 deals for CG artists
Updated 28 November: Discover 130+ assets on 3D assets and software, from Adobe applications to Blender, Cinema 4D & Houdini plugins.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
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Planetside Software updates Terragen Sky
Streamlined tool for generating skies for use in matte paintings or as environment maps gets 32K HDR export, better live sync with UE5.
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
Luxion ships KeyShot 2023.3
Latest update to the renderer radically overhauls color workflow, speeds up GPU rendering, and adds an ACES image transform.
Sunday, November 19th, 2023
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2024.2
Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and rendering software, including updates to Booleans, animation and USD for 3ds Max.
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
5 key features in Blender 4.0
Discover the latest changes to the open-source 3D app, from Geometry Nodes, Cycles and shading to the Viewport Compositor.
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Epic Games releases RealityCapture 1.3
Check out the new features in the photogrammetry app, including an interesting new mosaicing-based option for UV unwrapping.
Saturday, November 11th, 2023
ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk launch OpenPBR
Now publicly released: new sub-project of MaterialX will let artists transfer materials seamlessly between Adobe and Autodesk apps.
Monday, November 6th, 2023
Skybox AI to get automatic NeRF generation capabilities
Browser-based generative AI platform could soon generate complete 360° game environments from text prompts or sketches.
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
Blockade Labs launches Skybox AI 0.8
Online tool for generating 360° environments from text prompts or sketches adds new art styles, from vector art to 'organic architecture'.
Monday, October 30th, 2023
New Rookies rankings reveal the world's best CG schools in 2023
Discover which colleges were named the best for 3D animation, game art, visual effects, and overall world's best creative school.
Saturday, October 28th, 2023
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2023.2
Real-time visualization software gets Lumen real-time GI system, plus support for animated meshes and Substance materials. Price up $250.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
Epic Games to start charging to use Unreal Engine for VFX
UE5 to become a 'licensable piece of software like Maya and Photoshop' for non-games work like VFX, animation and visualization.
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer becomes first DCC app to support NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 and its AI-trained Ray Reconstruction denoiser.
Friday, September 22nd, 2023