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
Augmented Reality
Download the free Moves by Maxon iOS mocap app
Update: free app can now create 3D scans of objects in Cinema 4D, as well as capturing mocap data.
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender
New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.
Monday, December 13th, 2021
Discover your Complete Photogrammetry Workflow
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides an essential guide to 3D scanning workflow for production.
Monday, November 22nd, 2021
Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1
3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing
See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
Savage Interactive releases Procreate 5.2
iPad sketching app now lets users import and paint directly onto 3D models in OBJ or USDZ format.
Monday, November 1st, 2021
All Sketchfab subscriptions now include commercial use
Even free Basic subscriptions to the online 3D model display platform can now be used commercially.
Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Check out Epic Games' free Project Anywhere XR
Neat free Unreal Engine project lets you navigate to anywhere on the globe in augmented reality.
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
Eye candy: Epic Games' new 'Slay' Unreal Engine demo
Watch the action-packed CG short, then download its fully rigged and animated lead character for free.
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
Get Adobe's Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender
Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.
Wednesday, September 1st, 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
ftrack unveils cineSync Play
New desktop app for playing back high-res image sequences and video will be free with the ftrack Studio production tracking system.
Thursday, August 5th, 2021