Visit Gnomon's free event on designing futuristic cities
See top artists discuss architectural design for production at the CG school's LA campus next week. Watch free online.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
architectural visualization
Rookies 2019 rankings reveal the world's best CG schools
US schools Gnomon and SVA place top for visual effects and animation; Malaysia's The One Academy best for concept art.
Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Epic Games releases free TwinMotion update
Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender
AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
Happy Digital releases Autohedge for 3ds Max
Neat plugin generates hedges and bushes matching 18 real-world plant species to fill any 3D mesh.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
Esri ships CityEngine 2019.0
Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
Epic Games buys Twinmotion
Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Download 10 free 3D models for visualisation work
Get 3Dmodels.com's free assets, from clothes and furnishings to trees and cars. Multiple formats, commercial use.
Sunday, May 12th, 2019
Next Limit launches RoomBox
New architectural visualisation platform converts 2D AutoCAD and Revit floorplans into complete 3D environments for final rendering.
Saturday, April 27th, 2019
Download 21 free cutout animals from VIShopper
Get cutout cats, dogs, livestock and birds in PSD format for use in CG work. Licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, March 31st, 2019
Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2
Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Act-3D releases Lumion 9.0
Real-time visualisation tool gets new toolsets for sky lighting, rain, grass and fur in the Pro edition; better workflow in the base edition.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.
Monday, August 6th, 2018