Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1
Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
arch viz
Chaos and Enscape to merge
Private equity-led deal to unite developers of three of arch viz's most popular renderers. All of both firms' products remain available.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Nvidia launches Omniverse: still free to individual artists
Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021
Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.
Friday, December 31st, 2021
Open 3D Engine gets first stable release, 2022 roadmap
Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.
Thursday, December 30th, 2021
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library
New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
RandomControl ships Maverick Studio and Indie 2021.6
GPU renderers for visualisation and portfolio work get versatile object scattering and instancing system.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Download 22 free Megascans 3D trees for Unreal Engine
Get 22 models of black alders in .uasset format with LODs and 8k textures from the new Megascans Trees range.
Sunday, December 19th, 2021
iToo Software releases RailClone 5 for 3ds Max
Parametric modelling plugin gets new banking controls for splines; can now distribute lights and VDBs.
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.3
3D modeling and rendering tool gets Per Viewport Filtering options, further updates to Smart Extrude.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021