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
Game Engine
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
Unity merges with app monetisation firm ironSource
Game engine developer expects the $4.4 billion share-only deal to 'transform' its own financial profile.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
Download Unity's free Digital Human Package
Create photorealistic humans in Unity with this library of tools from The Heretic and Enemies demos.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Adobe officially releases Substance 3D Modeler
Much-anticipated VR sculpting tool provides a new way to rough out characters or hard-surface props.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Download KitBash3D's free Mission to Minerva model kit
Get 90 modular 3D models of sci-fi buildings and vehicle, created for KitBash3D's community art contest. Commercial use.
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.10
Open-source game engine's new terrain system handles '16km x 16km worlds at high framerates'.
Friday, October 14th, 2022
7 CG products you may have missed in September 2022
See what's new in AMD's pro GPU drivers, and in tools like Clarisse, Redshift and Omniverse Create.
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Blend File Importer loads .blend files in Unreal Engine
Handy new add-on makes it possible to import Blender scenes directly into Unreal Engine 4 and 5.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 0.26
New free beta of the VR sculpting software adds stroke stabilisation and long-awaited stamp system.
Friday, September 30th, 2022
Unity to raise subscription prices next month
Cost of Unity Pro and Enterprise plans up 13% to 25% in October. Personal subscriptions unaffected.
Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
Check out promising browser-based AI mocap tool Plask
Neat tool extracts full body animation from video in FBX and BVH format. Now supports multi-person capture.
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022