Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists
Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
Character Animation
Auto Character System 3 aims to redefine rigging in Modo
Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.
Monday, November 21st, 2022
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.1
New features in the game engine range from updates to Nanite and Lumen to AI-based animation tools.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Omniverse Machinima gets new Audio2Gesture system
Free app for creating animation for game cinematics now generates body movements from speech.
Friday, November 11th, 2022
Reallusion releases iClone 8.1 and iClone Unreal Live Link 1.1
Check out the new features in the real-time character animation app and its live link to Unreal Engine.
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Reallusion releases Character Creator 4.1
Character creation tool gets neat new auto-rigging system, new LOD creation and subdivision options.
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
Sneak peek: new GPU renderer U-Render for Maya
See the long-awaited Maya edition of the real-time renderer in action on a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU.
Monday, September 26th, 2022
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets global rotation kinematics, improved auto-posing.
Monday, September 19th, 2022
Watch Lion, Unity's fur-raising new tech demo
Beautiful new demo shows millions of strands of CG hair, rendered in real time in 4K on a PlayStation 5.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
Red9 releases major update to Red9 ProPack for Maya
Suite of rig management and character animation tools brings AAA workflows to indie artists.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Adobe releases Character Animator 22.5
Puppet animation tool gets new free-to-use Starter mode, available to anyone with an Adobe account.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2023.1
3D modelling and rendering tool gets new spline extrusion workflow, plus updates to key modifiers.
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
Reallusion's character pipeline redefines 3D production
[Sponsored] Discover how iClone 8 and Character Creator 4 simplify character design and animation.
Thursday, June 9th, 2022