Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant
Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Blender
Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020
Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Get neat free ZBrush texturing plugin ZBrush Compositor
Texture and light ZBrush sculpts in Substance Painter or Marmoset Toolbag without setting up UVs.
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Get free USDZ file converter and viewer Reality Converter
Check out Apple's new app for converting 3D models to USDZ, along with free alternatives for Windows and Linux.
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Check out promising open-source 2D animation tool enve
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
KeenTools releases free beta of FaceBuilder for Blender
New edition of the neat VFX tool creates 3D head models from source photos directly in Blender.
Monday, December 23rd, 2019
Masterpiece VR launches Masterpiece Studio
New VR tool suite lets users sculpt, rig and pose 3D characters via Oculus or HTC Vive controllers
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Rizom-Lab releases RizomUV 2019.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools for DCC work and product design now run on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Friday, December 6th, 2019
StemCell converts 3ds Max, Maya files to UE4 and Unity
Updated: TurboSquid tech converts files in the native format of one 3D app to that of another. Now also exports USDZ files.
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019