Unity reveals 2021 roadmap
See the new tools for games artists due in Unity 2020 LTS, 2021.1 and 2021.2 - plus a bonus for anyone with a free Personal subscription.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
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Microsoft becomes latest tech giant to back Blender
Strings-free €30,000/year donation will help pay for new Blender staff - now including non-developers.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Reallusion ships July 2020 updates to digital human tools
Check out the new features in Character Creator 3.3, iClone 7.8 and the SkinGen Premium plugin.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5
Real-time gaseous fluid simulator gets neat new GPU particle system for finer, wispier smoke effects.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
Crytek posts its 2021 CryEngine roadmap
Check out the features due in the next update to the game engine, now postponed from spring 2020.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Unity launches AR authoring solution Unity Mars
New paid Unity add-on provides a more user-friendly environment for authoring and testing augmented reality content.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2020
Godot Engine 4.0's editor will run in your web browser
But you can test an early prototype of the open-source game engine's new in-browser editor right now.
Monday, June 1st, 2020
Reallusion previews SkinGen
Neat new skin-generation toolset for Character Creator generates detailed human skin complete with pores, wrinkles, blemishes and hair.
Monday, June 1st, 2020
Watch Epic Games' amazing new Unreal Engine 5 demo
See the gorgeous Lumen in the Land of Nanite UE5 demo, running in real time on a PlayStation 5.
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Epic Games unveils Unreal Engine 5
Amazing next-gen update to the game engine promises dynamic GI - and the end of polygon budgets.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
Faceware Technologies launches Faceware Studio
Next-gen replacement for the old Faceware Live mocap system adds neat new 'Motion Effects' for tuning facial solves.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020