The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
Cinema 4D
Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for Cinema 4D
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system, improves rendering of caustics.
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free
Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Uppercut releases U-Render 2019.11 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D now out of early access - and now supports volumetrics.
Friday, November 8th, 2019
Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system and new hair materials to the renderer.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018.3
Big free update to the LightWave modelling toolkit adds new tools for UV mapping NURBS surfaces and for converting quads to NURBS.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
Check out neat retopology tool QuadRemesher
Updated: now available for Blender. Exoside's new tool turns messy models into clean all-quad meshes.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.23
Unreal Engine-based real-time visualisation platform gets native support for Cinema 4D, IFC files.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21
Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
e-on software ships Vue R3 and PlantFactory R3
Vue gets new orthographic camera and support for V-Ray Next; both apps get better Substance support.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Check out 'cinematography simulator' Cine Tracer
Interesting UE4-based tool lets users plan shots using CG versions of real-world lights and cameras.
Thursday, July 18th, 2019