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
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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
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021.1
Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and animation tool, including new interactive extrusion and texture baking workflows.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Pulze ships Scene Manager 1.6
Streamline the process of lighting and rendering scenes in 3ds Max with this powerful workflow tool for visualization and illustration work.
Monday, May 25th, 2020
Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Get Guillermo Leal's new free ivy generator for 3ds Max
Generate photorealistic ivy for architectural scenes with this neat new tool for 3ds Max 2018 and up.
Monday, April 20th, 2020