How to illustrate dynamic concept designs in Photoshop
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals People Can Fly art director Abe Taraky's concept art workflow.
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
game development
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.05
Open-source game engine gets new animation synthesis system, 'remixable materials', updates to the Atom renderer.
Friday, May 13th, 2022
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2022.1
See Unity's new tools for material variants and splines, and updates to 2D art and virtual production.
Friday, May 13th, 2022
Download sprite sheet and texture browser GTV for free
Get the fast, lightweight tool for browsing sprites and textures for games, previously priced at $20.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
Get XS Gamestudios' modular medieval buildings kit for free
Download a pack of 120+ parts for creating castles, churches and medieval houses free from the Unreal Marketplace.
Sunday, May 8th, 2022
Get Unity and Epic Games' new free game art e-books
Download detailed guides to 2D game development in Unity and MetaHuman Creator's facial solver.
Friday, May 6th, 2022
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.04
Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.1
Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Autodesk ships Mudbox 2023
No changes to the digital sculpting and painting app beyond a new Linux installer, but the price of annual subscriptions is up again.
Monday, April 18th, 2022
Download 15 free smoke, fire and dust sims in VDB format
Get free FX elements simulated in EmberGen in CC0 format, including this seamlessly loopable tornado.
Sunday, April 17th, 2022
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2022.1
Physics-based animation software gets Constraints system for weapons, plus new Node Editor and Python API for technical artists.
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
Unity releases Unity 2021 LTS
Latest Long Term Support release of the game engine adds no new features, but will continue to receive regular fixes until 2024.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2022.2
GPU-based terrain generation app gets new Fast Render mode, plus bridge tools for Unity and UE4.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022