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Frederic Durand's Direct Illumination in Maya and mental ray offers an advanced guide to CG lighting tools.

Monday, March 17th, 2014

Read Jamie Cardoso's guides to creating custom IES light webs and fixing glitches with self-illumination.

Thursday, December 27th, 2012

Check out the new features in the promising tool for fitting 3D clothing to humanoid avatars, including a new real-time cloth physics system.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

Updated: the new desktop mode in Leopoly's promising digital sculpting app now supports stylus as well as mouse and keyboard.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

Check out the new features in the next major update to the renderer, including 3D Gaussian Splatting, and updates to V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024

Read our FAQs on the new Unreal Engine pricing for games launched under the upcoming 'Launch Everywhere with Epic' program.

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024

Real-time visualization software gets new wind animation controls for plants and fabric. Check out the other new features here.

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024

Tree-generation software gets new tools for pruning trees and adding 3D vines. Now available as a single edition for games and VFX.

Monday, September 30th, 2024