Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists
Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 30th, 2020
arch viz
Quixel ships Mixer 2020.1.6
Free material authoring tool gets system for exporting layer masks to DCC apps and game engines, plus 65 new bundled Smart Materials.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Act-3D releases Lumion 11.0
Check out the new features in the real-time visualisation software, including this readymade animated phasing system in the Pro edition.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Esri ships CityEngine 2020.1
Procedural city generation tool can now import assets in USD format for VFX work, and generate LODs automatically for Unreal Engine.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
Rookies 2020 rankings reveal world's best CG schools
Gnomon places best overall and best for VFX. See the winners for animation and game design here.
Monday, October 26th, 2020
Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine
Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Check out fast 3ds Max cloth simulation plugin Dynamo
Deform Dynamics' real-time cloth simulation tool performs '10-100x faster' than Max's Cloth modifier.
Friday, October 9th, 2020
2020 CGarchitect rendering survey shows trends in arch viz
V-Ray and Corona top list of most popular architectural renderers, but use of Twinmotion, Enscape and UE4 also rising.
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
3d-io releases UV packing tool UV-Packer 3 for free
Download the new version of the powerful automated 3ds Max UV packing plugin completely free.
Thursday, August 27th, 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
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
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Trimble is discontinuing perpetual licences of SketchUp
Sales of new Classic licences of the architectural modelling software will stop after 4 November 2020.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020