Rookies 2021 rankings reveal world's best CG schools
The US's SCAD places first overall. See the category winners for animation, game design and VFX.
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
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Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.2
Update overhauls UV workflow, and improves USD export and support for tablet pen pressure.
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27
See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.
Monday, August 23rd, 2021
3d-io ships Unwrella 4 for 3ds Max and Maya
Free update to the UV unwrapping tool adds neat UV packing system and Projection unwrapping mode.
Thursday, August 12th, 2021
Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse
Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021
AWS unveils Open 3D Engine
Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 1.0
Intuitive new 'virtual photography' app features physics-aware layout tools, Vulkan-based GPU rendering.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
Unity acquires Pixyz Software
Buyout of Pixyz's CAD data preparation and import tools may also lead to new workflows for games artists in the Unity Editor.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.1
Check out the updates to Smart Extrude, modifiers and retopology in the latest version of the 3D modelling and rendering software.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
AMD unveils Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600 GPUs
New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
Discover 5 key new features from Blender 2.93 LTS
See the highlights of today's update to the open-source 3D app, from sculpting to 2D animation.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
AXYZ Design launches anima ALL subscriptions
All-in-one deal includes crowd animation tool anima and 1,600 3D characters for under $800/year.
Monday, May 31st, 2021
D5 Render 1.9 ships
Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.
Friday, May 28th, 2021